720p and full 1080p
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If you have eyes like a hawk, yes.
If you have 20/20 vision, no.
If you have 20/20 vision, no.
Soldato
No it will look nice, from 6ft+. You would notice a difference if you were closer, but from 6ft+ the difference will be fairly nominal, and it should still be clearly better than SD.
Experiment with the scalers though, either the bluray player can scale the 1080p source to 720p, or you can get the bluray player to output as 1080i (or p if that panel supports it), and the TV will use its scaler to output 720p. Panny TV's have excellent scalers, I find that on my TH42PX60 its best to use 1080 output and let the TV do the scaling down to panel resolution.
Experiment with the scalers though, either the bluray player can scale the 1080p source to 720p, or you can get the bluray player to output as 1080i (or p if that panel supports it), and the TV will use its scaler to output 720p. Panny TV's have excellent scalers, I find that on my TH42PX60 its best to use 1080 output and let the TV do the scaling down to panel resolution.
Soldato
Your panels resolution is 1024x720, lower than 720p. So any 1920x1080 is going to be scaled down. As above, it'll come down to the scalers. If it can take 1080i/p from the BD, it scale directly to 1024x720 and avoid the 1280x720 scaling in the BD player.
Depends on your eyesightI have the same panel and it's great, I find it's better sending a 1080p signal and letting the TV downscale.
Do you notice much difference say between DVD and HD?
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On my 42inch 1024x768 panel, I can tell the difference between bluray HD and DVD. Bluray is sharper, and the colours are a lot better, there is also a lot less compression artifacts on bluray, infact I have yet to really notice any artifacts on the blurays I have.
However most "downloaded" HD content is overcompressed, and while it has a higher resolution, most of the actual details have been wiped out and there are more compression artifacts visible. Sky HD is only marginally better than DVD, but then Sky SD is so compressed it generally looks worse than DVD, so even thats an improvement.
The difference between 769p and 1080p is sweet FA, unless you stare at paused images on the screen or watch footage with hardly any motion.
The talk about distances also comes into it, but the most important thing is that as soon as a camera pans on a set detail is lost, thus removing any minute difference between them anyway.
But if you sit close to a large set, and have good eyesight, then go for 1080p as you won't want to be seeing those pixels and their structure. Think about the PQ and not about the number of pixels !
The talk about distances also comes into it, but the most important thing is that as soon as a camera pans on a set detail is lost, thus removing any minute difference between them anyway.
But if you sit close to a large set, and have good eyesight, then go for 1080p as you won't want to be seeing those pixels and their structure. Think about the PQ and not about the number of pixels !
Soldato
thats a disadvantage of 24fps recording. surely youve seen 60hz 1080p material? its another world on a plasma compared to 24fps bluray material.
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1280x720 is the accepted 'standard' for 720p, yes. However, there is no standard for 720p video, believe it or not. the only 720p video content you'll find is on the net, content thats been re-encoded from a 1080p source or something similar. it makes no difference if the display is 1280x720 or 1024x720, whatever it is it will still scale everything it displays unless you are feeding the display its native resolution from a pc/comparable device playing custom 720p videos.
on any tv that isnt 1080p, the best method SHOULD be to turn the players scaling off and let the tv handle it. it doesnt always work like that however....
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Lol, ok call it 16:9 720p. If you select 720p on a device like a SkyHD for instance it'll output 1280x720@50Hz. Its down to those 1.33:1 rectangular pixels, even at higher res some HD is recorded at 1440x1080.
What I was getting at is his panel will still have to process the signal if fed 720p. If the panel scaler can accept a media's higher native 1920x1080 res then it removes one scaling stage.
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hehe.
you guys certainly have swallowed the marketing hype. Don't look at the resolutions, look at PQ
The Kuro's are/were 720p and they are the daddy
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my kuro is 1080p
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Back to the OP question, cue the oft used/abused resolution chart.
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Hell yes! There's just more detail in there.