480p is better than 480i but with either your LCD with still scale it to 720p (or 768p). With a HDDVD or BR player you should set them to output 720p rather than outputing 1080i/p because the tv will scale it to it's native 720p (or 768p with most LCD's) anyway. That will be less scalling. Normally the less scalling the better.
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Is 480p much better than standard 480i??
Just got an LCD TV, and don't have HD DVD or blue ray player, so the max I can watch a DVD at is 480p progressive scan. Right now I'm watching Lord of the Rings in standard mode, will this look significantly better or just slightly better??? Also if you TV is 720p and you get a HD DVD or Blue Ray player, will the player upscale the picture to 1080p, and will this look better upscaled or at the TV's native screen 720p?? Sorry with all the questions, I'm just really excited about this TV.
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Not true. You can get an upconverting DVD player (for as little as $120 or so) that will upconvert the 480i SD image to HD resolutions. Bear in mind that while you can't create true HD detail if it wasn't there to begin with, the picture can be certainly be improved by upconversion.
| Originally Posted by eagles5769 Just got an LCD TV, and don't have HD DVD or blue ray player, so the max I can watch a DVD at is 480p progressive scan. |
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Yes, but the TV is upconverts everything to 720p anyway -- it's a fixed pixel display. The question is whether an upconverting DVD player will do a better job than the TV will. Who knows, but I wouldn't expect a drastic improvement.
| Originally Posted by archiguy Not true. You can get an upconverting DVD player (for as little as $120 or so) that will upconvert the 480i SD image to HD resolutions. Bear in mind that while you can't create true HD detail if it wasn't there to begin with, the picture can be certainly be improved by upconversion. |
I have a Sharp LCD (1366 x 768p native) and my toshiba rdsx52 dvdrecoder can output 480p/720p/1080i over hdmi but the tv scales all to it's native 768p display and to be honest I can't really tell a difference. But it may show a difference on a larger screen, not sure. The scaler in the dvd player can make a difference too aswell as the one in the tv.
Usually the scaler in your TV is better than the one in an upconverting dvd player.
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