dougi3000
12-18-2002, 10:34 PM
I cannot seem to find an HDTV that supports 480i, 480p, 720p AND 1080i NATIVELY. What I mean by natively is that the TV will output the listed resolutions without upscaling/downscaling/stretching to the ONLY resolution they support.
ie. Most HDTV only support 540p/1080i. 540p is not even a standard resolution. 540p is ONLY included so they can say "progressive scan" but it isnt really, since the TV supports ONLY 1080i, and 540p is ONLY 1080i without showing the other field of the interlaced image (half of the image of 1080i).
All HDTVs I have seen scale up the 480p signal to "540p", or have some weird ass resolution where they have like 800lines and they scale all the "supported" resolutions to that one weird native resolution.
So, if you can find one of these HDTV, tell me because I have been looking since last year. The AV guys I talked to said the companies will soon get rid of the 540p and all native support for the progressive resolutions since nothing uses it (except xbox). They will scale all the crap and keep the costs low.
ie. Most HDTV only support 540p/1080i. 540p is not even a standard resolution. 540p is ONLY included so they can say "progressive scan" but it isnt really, since the TV supports ONLY 1080i, and 540p is ONLY 1080i without showing the other field of the interlaced image (half of the image of 1080i).
All HDTVs I have seen scale up the 480p signal to "540p", or have some weird ass resolution where they have like 800lines and they scale all the "supported" resolutions to that one weird native resolution.
So, if you can find one of these HDTV, tell me because I have been looking since last year. The AV guys I talked to said the companies will soon get rid of the 540p and all native support for the progressive resolutions since nothing uses it (except xbox). They will scale all the crap and keep the costs low.