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I'm planning on buying a progressive scan DVD player soon, but will not be buying a 480p compatible set for the better part of a year (my fiancee would rather spend the money on our wedding!). So my primary concern is how the unit will perform with the RPTV I will buy next summer, but I also need to be concerned with performance with my current set, a fairly generic 32" Sony that is not HDTV compatible.
Two questions:
- How noticeable are downconversion artifacts on a screen of this size? Will they be quite noticeable or does it take a larger screen before they become a problem? I realize this is pretty subjective and I am pretty sensitive to artifacts in general, but I'm currently watching a letterboxed movie on cable and I wonder if an image that's perhaps 8-10" high on a screen 8 feet away is really big enough to see the problems. Unfortunately my local dealers don't seem to bother to connect most of their display models so I can't easily test this out myself. I know how to get into the service menu of my TV and could probably do an anamorphic squeeze but doubt that I'd want to bother with that on a regular basis so I'd probably let the player do the letterboxing most of the time.
- Toshiba and Sony are used as the examples of extremes in letterboxing performance, with Toshiba being sharp but full of artifacts and Sony soft but relatively free of them. Is this still true in current models or is this based on older models? I would be particularly interested in the Toshiba 3750/4700/5700 in this respect, and any observations on the letterboxing performance of the other models I'm looking at.
So far I'm considering:
Toshiba 4700
Panasonic RP56
JVC SA70BK
Sony NS700P
Each has its own problems, chroma bug in the Sony, only 48KHz digital outputs on the JVC, etc., etc. I'm familiar with the recent discussions on the progressive performance of these players but need to have these questions answered to make my decision. Thanks!
Two questions:
- How noticeable are downconversion artifacts on a screen of this size? Will they be quite noticeable or does it take a larger screen before they become a problem? I realize this is pretty subjective and I am pretty sensitive to artifacts in general, but I'm currently watching a letterboxed movie on cable and I wonder if an image that's perhaps 8-10" high on a screen 8 feet away is really big enough to see the problems. Unfortunately my local dealers don't seem to bother to connect most of their display models so I can't easily test this out myself. I know how to get into the service menu of my TV and could probably do an anamorphic squeeze but doubt that I'd want to bother with that on a regular basis so I'd probably let the player do the letterboxing most of the time.
- Toshiba and Sony are used as the examples of extremes in letterboxing performance, with Toshiba being sharp but full of artifacts and Sony soft but relatively free of them. Is this still true in current models or is this based on older models? I would be particularly interested in the Toshiba 3750/4700/5700 in this respect, and any observations on the letterboxing performance of the other models I'm looking at.
So far I'm considering:
Toshiba 4700
Panasonic RP56
JVC SA70BK
Sony NS700P
Each has its own problems, chroma bug in the Sony, only 48KHz digital outputs on the JVC, etc., etc. I'm familiar with the recent discussions on the progressive performance of these players but need to have these questions answered to make my decision. Thanks!