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upcoming player: interesting feature

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on January 28, 2008 at 00:06:08:
The link below is to the press release from Panasonic re: their upcoming Blu-ray player. An interesting feature is described in the press release:

"1080/24p Playback The DMP-BD50 provides 1080/24p output (via HDMI) for Blu-ray titles and DVD titles. It reproduces movie images from a Blu-ray Disc in their original 24p form, with no need for conversion."

I haven't seen anyone else list this feature as something their player can do. It's basically (1) deinterlacing 720x480i to 720x480p, (2) upscaling it to 1920x1080p, then (3) dropping the repeated frames (the 3:2 cadence) to give a 1080p24 output.* Converting content originally encoded in video mode, as opposed to film mode, may be problematic and not desireable; however, for movies encoded in film mode, this is a nice addition for people who have displays that can take advantage of it.

* They may be reversing the order of (2) and (3), as this would be less processor intensive. Other than that, it makes no difference in which order these two steps are done.