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Happy with Panny DMP-BD55 for all the wrong reasons

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jimmyjames

I realise my display (6 year old Sony LCD RPTV with 760p native resolution) is the limiting factor but this Panny BD player makes good looking DVD's look GREAT when scaled to 1080i. I have still only watched 1 BD title, Iron Man and was not blown away by the picture. Waiting for those BD Xmas presents. Stars Wars DVD's and some music/performance DVD's look GREAT thru the Panny. The scaled DVD's look much better thru it than my Marantz DV9500 that at one time cost around $2K. Now I have a quandry about whether to crack the seal on a SuperBit and BD copies of 5th Element to do a comparison.

"E pur si muove...And yet it moves"

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input resolution - Joe Murphy Jr 21:05:36 12/10/08 (1)
What resolution are you sending the display when watching a Blu-ray movie? If it's 1080i, the Sony display may not be properly deinterlacing the 1080i signal to 1080p first and then scaling to the display's 7xxp resolution. If that's the case, you would only be getting 540p resolution from your Blu-ray movies. Comparing a 540p actual resolution experience with an upscaled 480p signal would certainly give one the false impression that Blu-ray "ain't all that".
- RE: input resolution - jimmyjames 07:30:22 12/12/08 (0)
  Like I said in this post or somewhere else, my display is the limiting factor here. My Sony looks the best with a 1080i signal input. It deinterlaces and does whatever for it's 768 native resolution. I am thrilled that the Pany 55 does what it does for DVD and that I am able to use the HDMI out from the Pany to the Sony DVI-d input using a a "special" ($39 from Crutchfield) cable. For the time being my BD player is an upscaling DVD player. I did order 3 BD titles and will get a couple for Xmas. I wish a new display was in my future but the wife wants a new fridge.
  
  Interesting but not so surprising phenomena with the Panny 55. When I first power up and start watching a (DVD) disc, the picture is a little grainy and within 15 minutes the grain goes away. If I start the disc over, the grain is not there. Could be the display but I do not think so at least not from a broadcast signal standpoint. It takes 90 minutes for the grain to go away with my Marantz Universal player.
  
  "E pur si muove...And yet it moves"
The (second) BD of 5th element is much better than the superbit. (nt) - Jack G 09:04:35 12/09/08 (0)
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