Just had Virgin+ HD installed, better using 720 or 1080 widescreen?

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

And so does the person you're quoting:



http://www.avforums.com/reviews/Sony-Playstation-3-Slim-Blu-ray-Disc-Player-Review.html

If it uses edge-adaptive scaling though, why does it make upscaled games look so blurry?

have you actually SEEN one upscaling Marty? I have!
As for games, I cannot comment as its a long time since I upscaled one

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

have you actually SEEN one upscaling Marty? I have!

Sure I have; it looks OK.

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

Sure I have; it looks OK.

Is that through a tv that displays pictures 1:1? (a lot of 1080P tvs DONT)

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Is that through a tv that displays pictures 1:1? (a lot of 1080P tvs DONT)

The native resolution of my TV is 1920x1080 if that's what you're asking.

As I said, the PS3 looks perfectly acceptable when upscaling. I just wouldn't describe it as "amazing".

I don't think any upscaler is amazing; they're just a necessary evil in this age of fixed-resolution displays.

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

The native resolution of my TV is 1920x1080 if that's what you're asking.

As I said, the PS3 looks perfectly acceptable when upscaling. I just wouldn't describe it as "amazing".

I don't think any upscaler is amazing; they're just a necessary evil in this age of fixed-resolution displays.

Thats not what im asking at all
Im asking if it has the option of 1:1 pixels (A direct copy). The vast majority of 1080P tvs 'overscan' (Meaning they change the actual picture from what was originally fed to it)
Tell me your make and model so I can suss out whether your watching the PS3 upscale, or your tv making a mess of things

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Thats not what im asking at all
Im asking if it has the option of 1:1 pixels (A direct copy). The vast majority of 1080P tvs 'overscan' (Meaning they change the actual picture from what was originally fed to it)
Tell me your make and model so I can suss out whether your watching the PS3 upscale, or your tv making a mess of things

It's a Samsung A550. The "Just Scan" option is enabled, which means it's using 1:1 pixel mapping.

Pincher

The last ten years have been one con after another: analogue wide screen, analogue flat wide screen, HD-Ready TV with a Freeview tuner that only tunes SD. Sky HD is only 720p, and they water the gin by skimping on bit rate. Don't forget HDMI without HDCP!

The so-called 720p HD broadcasts are mostly over-compressed to save bandwidth, and look DVD quality. You can claim to broadcast at any resolution you want, and then compress the hell out of the video stream. That's why a 1080p picture could still be awful, if you skimp on transmission bit rate.

Anyone who got conned into buying a 1080p Full-HD TV have my permission to shoot themselves. You do realise that the built-in Freeview tuner is DVB-T (SD), which cannot deal with DVB-T2 (SD&HD), which you will need to watch terrestrial BBC HD, roll-out started from 2 December 2009.

The only way you can get a proper 1080p picture is to watch a BluRay disk, assuming they produced it as a 1080p disc set.

I have a ten year old SONY KV-21X4U 21" Trinitron CRT TV sitting next to a SONY 32" KDL-32V4000 LCD HD-Ready TV (720p, not 1080p). I have every socket filled with inputs from 1xSky+HD, 1xPS3, 1xMacMini, 2xPCs (Media Centres) so I can switch every which way.

My conclusion is, for digital standard definition (SD) programs, the CRT wins every time. The colour is more natural, the contrast is better. The LCD gives blocky artifacts, even for BBC News 24 (wide screen, but still SD), whereas the CRT looks how it should. The vast majority of my viewing is still in SD, and I actually prefer to view them on the CRT. I use the 32" LCD as a computer monitor mainly.

You may have superduper up/down scaling, but if you start out with an overcompressed feed, you still get a DVD quality picture.

aliEnRIK

Sky HD is 1080i

roddydogs

So where can i get a 50" crt, then?

aliEnRIK

roddydogs wrote: »

So where can i get a 50" crt, then?

And how would I lift it?