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My Pioneer plasma bought in early 06 can handle only 1080i. 1080p wasn't widely available back then. I'm using an Oppo 971H upsampling SD DVD player at the moment (HDMI) and want to take the Blu-ray plunge. Should I bother? Thanks!
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It's the only way to get the higher resolution sound from current discs, but that may not be important or noticable to you.
NO, the Oppo BD83 made no difference on my Pana plasma 50" 1080i.
AB.
Your oppo made no difference compared to what? 1080i broadcast? 480i broadcast? 480p DVD? D-Theater?
Denon 2910 DVD player.
I have a Panasonic 50" 1366x768 plasma (6 years old). Through the best DVD player available today, the oppo DV-983H, the image is easily lesser than the ouput from my Sony PS3 or Panasonic BD-35 Blu-ray players when comparing a DVD to a BD.
And that's from 15 feet away.
That's pretty unusual. Admittedly some DVDs are excellent so upscale well (especially with the Oppo), and some BDs aren't that great. In general though, I would say there's a large diff. You can't create detail with an upscaler...Edit: I should mention that your and Funky Bob's panels must really be 720p native (source signal-wise). So maybe the conversions required with a 1080 source cause some weirdness or degradation. I've never used a 720p panel this way so don't know, mine are native 1080p and 1080i (CRT)...
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I bought a Blu-Ray player to use with my 1080i 60 inch LCD and I don't see a consistently superior picture with Blu-Ray. Much of the time it looks the same as upconverted DVD. My next sets will be 1080p but, for now, I could have waited on Blu-Ray.
-Wendell
You get a greater sense of depth with plasma and CRT. Not with LCD. I have all three techs here, not in the same room. Makes a big diff with BD. Just IMO/E... Plus you probably have a good upscaler. Nothing beats a hi-res source though.
I have no doubt you are correct but I'm just sharing what I see on my setup.
-Wendell
But it makes for great tv viewing. The BD 83 player by Oppo is supposed to be one of the best, and it's relatively inexpensive for its sound and picture quality. I have an older Panny BD 30, and it has been dependable, and given me many pleasurable screening. Oh, and the Olympics are breathtaking in HD. Think about it.
Native higher resolution images will always look better downscaled than lower resolution images will look upscaled. As an example, I have a 42" 852x480 plasma in the bedroom: Blu-ray and 1080i broadcasts blow away DVD and 480i broadcasts, even though all sources are scaled by the monitor to 852x480 in the end.
with a 1366 x 768 LCD screen.
There's also the advantage of the new sound codecs with Blu-ray and I think on some films the improvement in sound quality is as big or bigger than the improvement in the picture quality. Depending on the OP's taste in viewing and the quality of his sound system, the sound improvement alone may be a significant reason for the step up to BD.
David Aiken
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Re: your movies, the video will almost always be better and the audio, even from way back depending on where the BD is sourced from, may slightly benefit as well.
I have read comments from others who have purchased Blu-ray movies from that era and close to it. Nearly all have had good things to say about the step up in quality going from DVD, and in some cases laserdiscs, to Blu-ray. Remember, in order to go to Blu-ray resolution (yes, 4:3 included), the studio will almost always make a new High Definition master for the release. There are some older masters that don't look as good as today's which are used when a studio cheaps out, but even then the Blu-ray will show you more resolution than the DVD.
Yes. It should look pretty good with a plasma, you'll get that extra BD depth due to the good black level performance of your display; I found it very worthwhile even with a 1080i Sony RPTV.
Do you not get any 1080i TV channels? Doesn't that look good? The BD will be better.
Is the difference between 1080p and 1080i noticeable or most people can't even see it?
I recently switched from a Sony 1080i up converting player to a BluRay and frankly, I'm disappointed there's not that much of a difference.
Hmmm, I can't fake 1080p on my 1080i set, nor fake 1080i on my 1080p set. Both of different technologies, and the 1080p one (Pio Kuro Elite last gen) is definitely better than the older Sony CRT-RPTV.
So I can't say for sure. I do watch some 1080i music BDs on the better set, and to be honest I really doubt I could ever tell they're not 1080p. I am using a good player (Oppo BDP-83) and it has an excellent de-interlacer though.
I was never dissatisfied with BD via 1080i on the Sony. CRTs are nothing to sneeze at re black levels, but not up to the better plasmas these days though.
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