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Originally Posted by Miggy
Ruined,
Oh! Okay, thanks for that explanation. As I said, this is my first experience with an HDTV after dreaming about it for all these years.
Just one question, though. The TV displays 480i when it's turned off on the player and 480p when it's turned on. Does the TV de-interlace the signal, even though it's displaying 480i? In other words, 480i is just telling what the signal is, but it's really displaying 480p?
I was thinking about turning it off (on the player) anyway and resetting my TV settings, since it looked better before.
Miggy, the Thief
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Yes, if it is an LCD, Plasma, or DLP it is not possible for it to display 480i. These digital sets have a fixed resolution and deinterlace/scale everything to that resolution. So if it is a 1080p LCD and sent 480i, the "info" panel will display 480i but in actuality it deinterlaces the signal and upscales it to 1080p. If it is sent 480p, it will upscale the 480p to 1080p and the "info" panel will display 480p. Since deinterlacing DVD is not easy, it makes a big difference whether it is done right or not, and more expensive HDTVs usually have better circuits to do this than cheaper DVD players.