http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/ Engadget HD Comments for Pioneer releases "1080p-compatible" 720p plasmas http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/is it compatible or upconvert to 1080p.]]>Oct 23rd 2008 4:54PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Jun 8th 2006 9:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/
1. No de-interlacing required. Therefore no chance of inferior bob de-interlacing or incorrect weaving (causing loss of resolution, combing or interpolation artefacts). You simply get a neat progressive down-scale from 1080p to 768p.

2. No 3:2 judder! This is a huge benefit allowing faithful 3:3 pull-down for HD 1080p material resulting in clean judder free movement at 72hz.

3. The lack of any intensive processing/de-interlacing should theoretically result in a sharper cleaner picture.

Sure its doesn’t compare to a true 1080p display, but 1080p input is still a very worthwhile addition to any quality 720p/768p HD display.
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Regarding people using SD inputs on their HD displays, I see it all the time. Here in Australia it's even worse, as we have separate SD and HD Digital TV systems (simulcast at the same time). You'd be amazed how many people buy shiny new HD displays and pair it up with a SD STB via S-Video (or worse, composite) and think they are watching HDTV. Hell, half the people I have talked to think DVDs are HD! We certainly have a long way to go with regular consumers and the HD transition...
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Just the other day my dad was asking me if he should get "a digital TV for when they turn off analogue and we all have to go HD". (I'm in the UK, and analogue signals will cease to be broadcast in about 5 years' time.)

My dad doesn't know much about this sort of technology, but he's clearly read or heard something, and got himself into a complete mess.

My father-in-law, who is slightly more technically-minded, was recently quizzing me about "true HD vs 720p, because 720p is crap, right?" Again, he has some idea of the reality, but not enough to make an informed decision.

And now manufacturers are touting their TVs as "1080p-compatible", but actually underdelivering on the expectation born of their promise. Not many people understand upscaling, or, now, downscaling. You can bet that the shop assistant won't know any more than the customer, and we'll end up with lots of people buying TVs they will never full utilise, and lots of people buying sets that they think are better than they actually are.

I think we need some sort of universal scale or star rating system for picture input and output capabilities. Imagine something along the lines of:

Two columns; one for input signal and one for output. From top to bottom are the ratings: 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 720i, 480p. And somewhere beside this graph is the TV's native resolution, for absolute clarity.

Each TV would have ticks in the relevant boxes, making it far easier for Joe Public to understand at least the basic input and output capabilities they are sbout to shell-out their hard-earned cash for.

I know this idea would need a lot of work to make it accurate and universally acceptable, but who do you lot reckon?]]>Jun 9th 2006 7:26AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/
Hopefully websites will continue to develop for more and more cowsumers to become better educated and see the devils for what they are: devils.]]>Jun 9th 2006 8:54AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Jun 9th 2006 10:05AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Jun 9th 2006 11:13AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/
“I think we need some sort of universal scale or star rating system for picture input and output capabilities. Imagine something along the lines of:

Two columns; one for input signal and one for output. From top to bottom are the ratings: 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 720i, 480p. And somewhere beside this graph is the TV's native resolution, for absolute clarity.”

That is one of the best ideas I have heard in ages. Start writing to manufacturers, AV journalists and other industry experts! I’m serious. I think something like this is desperately needed and could really catch on.

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In response to Galley’s comment of …

“Drops means "stops selling" not "announces". This isn't the hip-hop world where albums "drop" onto the market.”

Exactly. Thought the same thing myself. Drop means “to discard”.

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I'm one lone consumer voice, easy to ignore. However, what if a certain ever-so-slightly-popular family of techie blogs got on to the case?

HDBeat could join forces with Engadget and help make this suggestin become a reality. There could be an online petition, and I'm sure the writers have contacts in the industry to help make our cause heard...]]>Jun 11th 2006 3:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Jun 13th 2006 1:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Oct 2nd 2006 12:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/Jul 30th 2007 3:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pioneer-drops-1080p-compatible-1024x768-plasmas/

YEA NO KIDDING.

THEY TOTALLY Duped me. They dont explain it in the specs and I thought it ran 1080p.

I'm VERY ANGRY with Pioneer.

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