The whole idea of taking a progressive source material from the disk, unnecessarily INTRODUCING interlacing, just to have to deinterlace for no reason seems stupid. Its one thing if you are trying to output to 1080 to introduce interlacing, but if you are trying to get a progressive signal the need to introduce and then remove interlacing is as!n!ne.
And keep in mind that you cannot transcode nor scale while interlaced, so it only furthers the absurdity of adding and removing interlacing ALL THE TIME.
GhostDoggy; I do understand, it's kind of silly, but it's done to get a budget player into more people's hands. Unfortunately, the main reason it's being done is to justify a cheaper HD player, but it's not as if 1080p output actually costs any more than 1080i. It's just done for market segmentation and nothing else, the people that want 1080p are asked to kick in another $100.
In manycases, I think it might be cheaper to get an equivalent display that doesn't do proper pull-down removal and buy a 1080p player than buy a 1080i player and buy a TV with proper pull-down removal.
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The whole idea of taking a progressive source material from the disk, unnecessarily INTRODUCING interlacing, just to have to deinterlace for no reason seems stupid. Its one thing if you are trying to output to 1080 to introduce interlacing, but if you are trying to get a progressive signal the need to introduce and then remove interlacing is as!n!ne.
And keep in mind that you cannot transcode nor scale while interlaced, so it only furthers the absurdity of adding and removing interlacing ALL THE TIME.
GhostDoggy; I do understand, it's kind of silly, but it's done to get a budget player into more people's hands. Unfortunately, the main reason it's being done is to justify a cheaper HD player, but it's not as if 1080p output actually costs any more than 1080i. It's just done for market segmentation and nothing else, the people that want 1080p are asked to kick in another $100.
In manycases, I think it might be cheaper to get an equivalent display that doesn't do proper pull-down removal and buy a 1080p player than buy a 1080i player and buy a TV with proper pull-down removal.