Home Video Asylum

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What's with this business about

"We're getting close to 1080, folks."

I've got the Zenith(LG) DVB318 DVD player, and it IS 1080i. Now the bad new, the numbers don't tell the whole story. 1080 does NOT equal HD quality at all. While regular DVD's upconverted to 1080i looks a little better than 480p or 480i, it's not the difference between cable TV and HD TV. Just like when folks were going nuts with redbook CD "upsampling," which turned out to be much less than it was claimed to be.

Still, 1080i DVD does look pretty darn good, and with good quality DVD's, I sometimes can be fooled into thinking, "Wow, that looks like HD!"


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