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"Tarkus" <> wrote in message
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> Don't you think it's a good idea for Fox and others to deliver 1080p
> now,
> rather than wait until the players mature, and then have to release
> updated titles?

There is no need to update the titles for 1080p. All HD DVDs and
Blu-rays have been encoded as 1080p since the beginning. The limitation
is one of the hardware, not the software, and should be rectified by the
second generation of players.

Joshua Zyber () wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> But it *does* have 1080p output, as I just explained.

You could also say that a DVD player has 720p output, and although it
might, you still suffer from the limitations of the source being 480i.
With 1080i in the middle, although the output is 1080p, it's identical
in every way to the 1080i that was created during the conversion from
the source to 1080i.

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On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:41:39 -0700, poldy <> Gave us:

>Aren't there suppose to be LCD, plasma and DLP sets coming this fall
>with 1080p inputs and 1:1 pixel mapping?

My LCD HDTV display HD DVD at 1080 in a 1:1 direct pixel mapping.

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:10:15 GMT, Jeff Rife <> Gave us:

>poldy () wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> > Until a player/display combo comes along that can reliably allow 1080p
>> > to be displayed, it's kind of a non-event.
>>
>> Aren't there suppose to be LCD, plasma and DLP sets coming this fall
>> with 1080p inputs and 1:1 pixel mapping?
>
>The problems are:
>
>- no HD player yet has 1080p output
>- tests with 1080p output from other devices have shown that displays
> that "support" 1080p input have some bugs that make it not work a lot
> of the time (but, this could just be an HDMI/HDCP issue)

It doesn't need to be p. Interlaced is fine.

Hell, 720p blows all the old **** out of the water.

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:01:18 GMT, Jeff Rife <> Gave us:

>
>You could also say that a DVD player has 720p output, and although it
>might, you still suffer from the limitations of the source being 480i.
>With 1080i in the middle, although the output is 1080p, it's identical
>in every way to the 1080i that was created during the conversion from
>the source to 1080i.


There are NO differences in the datagram between the two. The ONLY
difference is in how it is displayed.

The pixel array size is the same, therefore the visual resolution is
the same. The only difference a given viewer MIGHT notice is a slight
flicker on the interlaced version, but the displayed pixel array (as
in DATA) is the same.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:56:50 -0400, "Joshua Zyber"
<> Gave us:

>"T1000" <> wrote in message
>news:44a35848$...
>> Will these and other discs all be single layer mpeg2? -
>
>Unknown but probably.
>
>> have Blu-Ray been able to release ANY dual layer discs with mpeg4 /
>> VC1 etc?
>
>No.
>
>> - if not are most Blu-Ray titles worse quality than HD-DVD?
>
>So far, unequivocally yes.
>
HEAR, HEAR... THERE... THERE!

Most assuredly so, my dear Watson...