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The Official High Def Thread (Page 2)
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 
They still make DLP's??
High end 3-chip DLPs are amongst the best projectors money can buy.
Too bad they cost 5-digit US$ prices.
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Originally Posted by Eug
High end 3-chip DLPs are amongst the best projectors money can buy.
Too bad they cost 5-digit US$ prices.
Oh ya 3 CHIP DLP is but I was talking the 1 Chip rear projector stuff. Old school.
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P.S. The JVC DLA-HD100 isn't DLP. It's LCoS. But it's a damn nice projector of course.
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So I have a 32" Sony Bravia 720p HDTV, but according to my (upconverting) DVD player, it's displaying 1080i. I'm pretty sure it's lying. The Bluray player says it's doing 720p, which is what it should be.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
So I have a 32" Sony Bravia 720p HDTV, but according to my (upconverting) DVD player, it's displaying 1080i. I'm pretty sure it's lying. The Bluray player says it's doing 720p, which is what it should be.
The DVD player could very well be outputting 1080i. I'm not sure why you find that surprising.
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Fixed the thread title. 
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Originally Posted by Eug
The DVD player could very well be outputting 1080i. I'm not sure why you find that surprising.
It is surprising to me that it is not only outputting 1080i but according to the TV, it's being displayed in 1080i as well. I would rather have 720p then 1080i though.
Edit: I will admit I am a HD noob though.
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The TV is just reporting it is receiving a 1080i signal. It then goes on to downconvert it 720p.
However, for my 768p TV, a 1080i source basically always looks better than a 720p source, but that's not that surprising, since 768p > 720p.
However, for my 720p projector, feeding it a 1080i signal from my Xbox 360 looks better than a 720p signal, presumably because my projector downsamples to 720p better than the Xbox 360 does.
If your DVD player has a 720p setting, try it and see how it looks compared to the 1080i setting. If 720p looks better, then use 720p. If worse, then stick with 1080i. If the same, then don't worry about it.
And finally, some TVs actually upscale to 720p better than the DVD player. ie. In a few instances, you'd actually get better quality by feeding the TV 480p.
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Originally Posted by Mrjinglesusa
So the only way to hear HTS-HD is through HDMI and a receiver that supports it right? Can it run over optical to a receiver that handles regular DTS?
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
So the only way to hear HTS-HD is through HDMI and a receiver that supports it right?
No. If your player has analogue 5.1 outputs (ie. not the PS3), you can hear it that way (assuming your receiver has analogue inputs).
Can it run over optical to a receiver that handles regular DTS?
No.
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If you have a receiver with HDMI that accepts up to 7.1 LPCM at 96Khz, then you can take advantage of this update to hear DTS HD MA in high fidelity.
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Originally Posted by exca1ibur
Until I download it it smells a bit vaporwareish. I can't figure if it lets you control the playback and it also seems live enabled disks are needed.
Netblender™ - BD Touch
(Last edited by analogue SPRINKLES; Apr 10, 2008 at 07:25 PM
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52" Mitsubishi DLP.
Right now using Comcast HD (pretty crappy) to watch some HD NHL playoff action (sweeeeet).
I hook up my MPB to it too to watch regular DVDs.
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
So the only way to hear HTS-HD is through HDMI and a receiver that supports it right? Can it run over optical to a receiver that handles regular DTS?
Originally Posted by Eug
No. If your player has analogue 5.1 outputs (ie. not the PS3), you can hear it that way (assuming your receiver has analogue inputs).
No.
^^^What he said. You need HDMI or analogue 5.1 outputs. Optical won't work.
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Panasonic 50" 720p plasma (I sit ~9ft away so i don't get the benefits of 1080p)
Denon receiver
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Bowers-Wilkins 685's (soon to be replaced with 683's and the 685's will move to bedroom as computer speakers)
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Just purchased a 42" 1080p set to replace a 19" tube (yeah, laugh away).
Girlfriend: "You paid how much for this and every thing we watch looks like complete ****?!!"
We get a couple of HD channels - nothing we'll watch, though.
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