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Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
M @ Sep 20th 2006 12:08AM
I thought HD-DVD topped at 1080i, and the big selling point of Blu-Ray was 1080p?
Is it just an de-interlacer? That would be worst...
James @ Sep 20th 2006 3:19AM
1st gen HD-DVD players could only output 1080i, but all of the HD-DVD movies support 1080p. The 2nd gen Toshiba HD-DVD players being released in October for US and 1st gen players for Europe can output 1080p.
Franssu @ Sep 20th 2006 10:56AM
Sure, badly de-interlaced 1080i (from a video source) would look awful. But as we're talking film-based material here, and there's no difference whatsoever between 1080p/24 material output in 1080i/60 and properly deinterlaced and 1080p/24 material output in 1080p/60.
1080p is, for the time being, mostly a marketing fad. Plug a blu-ray player on a decent 1080p display, and you won't be able to see a difference when you switch the output of the player between 1080p and 1080i, because on the screen there won't be any.
Raaj @ Sep 20th 2006 10:53AM
All the HD-DVD movies are encoded at 1080p24, and the player can choose to output whatever resolution it chooses to. This is no different from what Blu-Ray does. It was FUD spread by Blu-Ray idiots that HD-DVD was limited to 720p/1080i while Blu-Ray was at 1080p. NOT TRUE !!
The first generation HD-DVD players from Toshiba converted the 1080p24 on disc to 1080i60 and output as such. The Blu-Ray players announced from Samsung, Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic also do the same, but after converting it to 1080i60, they use another chip to deinterlace and output 1080p60. Toshiba chose to let a user's 1080p TV do the deinterlace, or give the option for the user to use an external video processor to scale the video to match their display's native resolution.
In all these cases, neither HD-DVD players or Blu-Ray players announced so far are outputting pure 1080p. It is only going to be deinterlaced 1080i. The next time an idiot in Best Buy or Circuit City pushes bullshiat at you and says HD-DVD is not full HD whereas Blu-Ray is true HD 1080p, call his bluff.