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In Reply to: RE: Blu-ray player suggestions? posted by jimbill on December 04, 2008 at 09:54:05
Plasmas are fixed pixel displays-progressive by nature it may accept 1080i, but its either 720p or 1080p.
Either way, you'll benefit from Blu-ray.
Jack
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Now you got me confused...
My 1080i is really a 1080p?
Picture quality is the same and blu-ray will be the same?
...1080i cable or broadcast sources on either a 720p or 1080p Panny plasma.
Why do you think your plasma is 1080?
I have a TH-50PX60U. After your post I checked cnet.com for the review and specs and it shows the display format is 720p.
I guess i don't have what I thought. But I did get it at a deep discount at the time through a Panny employee/friend.
But back to the original question, will blu-ray benefit me significantly over a good up-converting DVD player?
I've got a 32" 768P LCD and I see a noticeable improvement with BD. If you have any doubts, borrow a player and a BD disc of a film you have on DVD. Compare the two. Alternatively if you have a station that transmits both standard and high def signals on different channels, do a swap between the two. The best broadcast you'll get will be 1080i but you will definitely see a difference between a 480i signal, whether it gets upscaled in the player or in the TV, and a high def 1080i signal. The improvement should be more noticeable the larger the screen is so you should get a bigger improvement on a 50" screen than I do with my 32" screen. Just make sure you sit no further than 10' or so away, perhaps even 7'or so away, so that the screen makes a reasonable viewing angle with your eye.
The high def audio formats are also a noticeable improvement on the standard DVD soundtracks though, unfortunately, some BDs do not have a lossless soundtrack.
David Aiken
But his isn't one of them: all of Panasonic's plasmas are progressive-only displays.
Fujitsu and Hitachi have offered several of their models using ALiS (and later eALiS) technology. The acronym is short for A lternate Li ghting of S urfaces and is/was interlaced plasma technology (Fujitsu is out of the plasma business and I don't think Hitachi still uses the technology). Their goal was reduced power consumption and increased life-span.
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