Don't dump your CRT RPTV! - Page 348

All regular format DVDs are recorded in 480i, and were always meant to play in 480i. They only appear as 480p after transcoding, which takes place these days inside the DVD player itself before ever leaving the player. Same with upconverting to 1080i, the upconversion happens best inside the digital domain before it ever leaves the player, and all Bluray players currently available upconvert the regular DVD 480i to 1080i if you wish, you just have to tell it to do that in the player's menu, as to what's the highest scanrate you will want your content to be playing in, whether it comes from 480i DVDs or 1080i/p bluray discs. Which for our sets will be 1080i, not 1080p.

Only catch is, the UPconversion to 1080i from 480i has to leave the player as HDMI. Not component, which is limited to 480p on upconversions from regular DVDs.

In yesteryear, you had to have a DVDO or Faroudja or whatever other scaler, to upconvert the 480i to 480p. And to 1080i. These days all you need is the conversion from HDMI to component, which is what works best in our sets.

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Where you gonna get a native 480p disc? They don't make 'em.

You can get 480p from a sat or cable feed. That 480p will probably be better than anything that is synthesized from 480i, no matter what the transcoder.

But since the same STBs will deliver completely lossless pixel for pixel 1080i from 1080i native sources, why bother?

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Oh yeah.

And there are kickass deals on bluray discs, if you get yourself on the right lists. There were used BRs at a local Blockbuster the other day, 5 bluray movies for $20. Inception was one of them. And used is exactly as good as new, with digital discs.

My faves are www.deepdiscount.com, www.dealextreme.com (tho this may be only for devices/toys and not blurays...), www.inetvideo.com, (here's the latest - http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=prev....T0MWwA.Bt4IeA).

Bluray is still the nth degree of uncompromised movie playing, with the least compression of all consumer formats that I know of. These places also had incredible deals on HD DVD, back when they needed to clear out their inventory because of losing the format war.

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Just ran across this post from a 2008 thread specifically about convergence on our sets. I later went to a full 3" of shimming, so this is not what I currently watch today. It's not fresh, but works for occasional recreational viewing...!





Here's some eye candy from a well converged set - mine -

Just finished adding another shim to my CRT array, a la (thanks!) Owen, for a total of 2.25" - 3 shims of 3/4" each, 4 of them - to my 73" Mit. I added a spot of white glue between the shims and under them, for stability. This makes half again the amount of shimmage I had before today, with just 2 shim thicknesses each x4, for 1.5" of shimmage for the last few months -

Took this opportunity to reclean the lens tops, it had been a year or so since last time, made a noticeable difference. Mit's HDreadys don't need the deeper optics cleaning, they don't allow an air gap between the lenses and the coolant covers, like the Elites do.

I think my shots are being compromised by being in jpeg, which I have heard reduces the res automatically. I checked my cam and can't find any way to redo any of that inside the cam, so it must by the automatic Windows uploading from my cam. Any input welcome on that. Kodak Z712 IS.

After redoing the focus, geometry and convergence - grayscale and colorations stayed the same as before, basically all by eye on the colorations - here's the results -



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Slightly overexposed, but appropriate to the brilliance of the runway
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Hard to get the crowd shadow details and still have the diamond sparkle without it white crushing out on my cam. The display shows both just fine.
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Slight movement blur on this one, mostly on her outfit. But check out those abs!
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Blur on this one only on her right shoe and at the top of her rack (no not that one, the one she's WEARING...!)
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Another one from the same page, back in 2009 when Jack was king. I really like my video to be up in my face -

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Absolutely. Most true to the original - whether it's film or digital based - and least compressed playback out there, available to the general public. Same for HD DVD, for what content you can still find.

I would not be surprised if you could find entire libraries of used movies in these 2 digital HD formats out there on the used market, like ebay and craigslist. Which, being digital and nothing but ones and zeros, would playback as if they were brand new, each and every time no matter how "old" they actually are. Age and endless copying/transcribing cycles mean nothing to digital. Always brand new fidelity, every time.

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Absolutely.

If you can't readily see the difference between 720p and 1080i on our TVs from a relatively close-up distance that shows off how big your set is and is still ultra crisp, it has not been correctly set up and dialed in.

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My 65" Panny does both 1080i and 720p native, and the 720p on it has noticeably more edge enhancement than the pure, sleek 1080i. That said, Alias was fantastic, and so was 24. Go figure...

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How do I check out TWD? I am on Dish.

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I agree for the most part, but no, not no discernable differences. Just negligible ones, that are usually very few and far between.

Such as flashbulbs, and pyrotechnics at concerts. These confuse the heck out of 1080i and cause it to go into pixellation. Have not tested, but I don't think that happens on 1080p.

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I just looked at the trailer. It's a zombie series. Not really into that. Why again would I want to see one of these shows?

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