Gabe, Xyzzy, I am under the same impression that both the Samsung BD and the Toshiba HD DVD players use the same exact Broadcom decoder chip, which outputs on hardware (not software) at 1080i.
Xyzzy, if you want to trust your display to deinterlace 1080 lines of information then so be it. Chances are it will more than likely use a simple 'bob' technique and drop half the fields (never to be seen again) and line-double the remaining 540 fields into 540+540 frames. Enjoy that sub-HD result.
Overseer, its not the disk capacity, but rather the use of a decoder chip encapable of affording enough bandwidth for internal processing of 1080 progressive lines at a time. The Samsung, for instance, employs another chip to deinterlace to a progressive output even though its only handline MPEG-2.
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Gabe, Xyzzy, I am under the same impression that both the Samsung BD and the Toshiba HD DVD players use the same exact Broadcom decoder chip, which outputs on hardware (not software) at 1080i.
Xyzzy, if you want to trust your display to deinterlace 1080 lines of information then so be it. Chances are it will more than likely use a simple 'bob' technique and drop half the fields (never to be seen again) and line-double the remaining 540 fields into 540+540 frames. Enjoy that sub-HD result.
Overseer, its not the disk capacity, but rather the use of a decoder chip encapable of affording enough bandwidth for internal processing of 1080 progressive lines at a time. The Samsung, for instance, employs another chip to deinterlace to a progressive output even though its only handline MPEG-2.