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Re: native resolution

Posted by David Aiken (A) on January 21, 2007 at 21:47:51

In Reply to: native resolution posted by Joe Murphy Jr on January 21, 2007 at 19:51:18:

Interesting that someone actually made a player that scaled to 1366 x 768 at one time—I've never seen one, much less heard of those 2 makes but that's probably because we don't get the same range of stuff here in Australia that you do in the US. I have heard of separate video scalers that will scale to 1366 x 768.

As I said, I think I get slightly better picture quality running my Denon 2907 at standard definition when feeding my Loewe a component video signal. It's hard to define what the difference is, and it's definitely not a very big difference, buy things do seem to be a little sharper/crisper/better colour definition when I use the standard definition output. Ditto when it comes to choosing between 576p and 720p output with HDMI.

When it comes to digital TV, I watch a range of channels transmitting in standard definition interlaced, standard def progressive (one of the high def channels here when it slums), 720p and 1080i. I really haven't tried doing comparisons with different output choices on my set top box which can output at the incoming definition or you can opt to convert everything to standard def, to 720p, or to 1080i. I've simply let it sit on the 'auto' setting, outputting the same definition as the original signal and let the TV do the scaling. The overall results are good with that setting, regardless of the incoming signal, and I watch much less TV than I do video.

I haven't had the chance to see how my system works with a HD-DVD or BlueRay player. They're both just starting to be released here in Australia and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of discs available yet. I've seen some BlueRay setups in the shops but I have yet to see a HD-DVD player yet.

Interestingly, given the ongoing comments about the format wars and the late start for BlueRay in the US, Blue Ray seem to have got their stuff out the door first in Australia, with players and discs appearing in early December. It's only this month that I've even seen an ad for a HD-DVD player and I have yet to see a HD-DVD player or disc in the flesh. I wonder what that says.

David Aiken

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