I was going to say something about the reviewers and their choices for feeding video from player to display and their inability to discern 1080i from 1080P, but the following statement just blew me away:
"However, Samsung confirmed for us that the BD-P1000 converts video from the disc to 1080i before converting it back to 1080p for output."
Why on earth would any player capable of reading the 1080 Progressive data on the Blu-ray disk and need to 'interlace' the video AND then deinterlace the video before outputting it as 1080P?
You cannot 'process' video in interlaced form so I have to wonder why the disks are read progressively and then go through an unneccessary p-i-p routine, which to me only affords a couple of opportunities to introducing video artifacts.
This is about as as!n!ne as I can imagine. Someone dispell my obvious ignorance and explain the logic in this, because it seems overly illogical.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I was going to say something about the reviewers and their choices for feeding video from player to display and their inability to discern 1080i from 1080P, but the following statement just blew me away:
"However, Samsung confirmed for us that the BD-P1000 converts video from the disc to 1080i before converting it back to 1080p for output."
Why on earth would any player capable of reading the 1080 Progressive data on the Blu-ray disk and need to 'interlace' the video AND then deinterlace the video before outputting it as 1080P?
You cannot 'process' video in interlaced form so I have to wonder why the disks are read progressively and then go through an unneccessary p-i-p routine, which to me only affords a couple of opportunities to introducing video artifacts.
This is about as as!n!ne as I can imagine. Someone dispell my obvious ignorance and explain the logic in this, because it seems overly illogical.