I thought the Reon-VX in Toshiba's AX2 was going to process the 1080p/24 that is stored on the HD-DVD, not the 1080i/60 signal that is converted from that source. That would make way more sense than manipulating a converted signal.
As for the comment regarding just sending the signal to the display as 1080p/24 with no manipulation, well there is a lot that can be done to the signal to clean it up. You can find out just what if you go through the information on Silicon Optix website (the guys who make the Reon chip).
It has nothing to do with cleaning up a signal. In fact the disk should already be "cleaned up" as you put it, we're not talking about an analog source, or an analog output or even an analog television. Sending the exact signal would be ideal.
The issue is that the new "next gen" dvd formats support overlays. So what happens is that things like menus, chapters, timelines, picture in picture needs to be rendered on top of the movie and then shown on the TV. The processing which occurs to add these elements to the signal is occuring on an interlaced picture (the components to do it on a 1080p24 signal are still too expensive (I suppose). Therefore they need a chip like this to convert the updated picture from the modified 1080i60 into the 1080p60 output.
It is unfortunate that typically all you want to do is just watch the movie which would be a straight transfer, but they do need to support all of the advanced features.
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I thought the Reon-VX in Toshiba's AX2 was going to process the 1080p/24 that is stored on the HD-DVD, not the 1080i/60 signal that is converted from that source. That would make way more sense than manipulating a converted signal.
As for the comment regarding just sending the signal to the display as 1080p/24 with no manipulation, well there is a lot that can be done to the signal to clean it up. You can find out just what if you go through the information on Silicon Optix website (the guys who make the Reon chip).
It has nothing to do with cleaning up a signal. In fact the disk should already be "cleaned up" as you put it, we're not talking about an analog source, or an analog output or even an analog television. Sending the exact signal would be ideal.
The issue is that the new "next gen" dvd formats support overlays. So what happens is that things like menus, chapters, timelines, picture in picture needs to be rendered on top of the movie and then shown on the TV. The processing which occurs to add these elements to the signal is occuring on an interlaced picture (the components to do it on a 1080p24 signal are still too expensive (I suppose). Therefore they need a chip like this to convert the updated picture from the modified 1080i60 into the 1080p60 output.
It is unfortunate that typically all you want to do is just watch the movie which would be a straight transfer, but they do need to support all of the advanced features.