I'm glad to see this happen, for too long children have been able to do "stuff" and see "things". With rulings like this and future parents suing for what their children eat, to who they talk to, to what they do when they ditch school even, I am really looking forward to a school system that is instead run by fear and looks a lot like a penitentury or a nursing home.
A lot of folks out there don't understand the differences between I (interlaced) and P (progressive), which they shouldn't, it's too detailed, but for folks that do it's easier to understand why outputting 720p on a 1080p set is going to look better then interlacing the signal then asking the TV to deinterlace it.
Also a lot of folks with new HD stuff don't give their TV scalers enough credit, these things are good, most of them excellent, especially in the big-brand sets. So doing what you are doing is definately the smarter way to go for a crisper un-raped signal.
Nicholas, That is a nobel endevor and one I fully support. I just wanted to add that every 1080p set out right now (the new Sony A2000s, the Samsung 87 series and the Mits 731/732/831 series) all create a bit of overscan, on par with about 3% when displaying a PC signal. So if this is a huge thing for you, make sure the set you are looking at provides adjustments to correct for this, or even your PC can do it (but only if it's hooked up over a VGA (uggg) or DVI (yay) connection, over DVI->HDMI the PC cannot get timing information and most won't understand what they are hooked up to, in which case you will need to rely on the set for the correction controls.
May already have been pointed out, but unless you dropped $10k on your Plasma relatively recently, it's not a 1080p display, so displaying 720p is most likely going to look the best on that set.
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I'm glad to see this happen, for too long children have been able to do "stuff" and see "things". With rulings like this and future parents suing for what their children eat, to who they talk to, to what they do when they ditch school even, I am really looking forward to a school system that is instead run by fear and looks a lot like a penitentury or a nursing home.
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As long as kids are held back from experiencing anything, then I feel safe. And as long as I feel safe, that's all that matters... or I'll sue you.
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A lot of folks out there don't understand the differences between I (interlaced) and P (progressive), which they shouldn't, it's too detailed, but for folks that do it's easier to understand why outputting 720p on a 1080p set is going to look better then interlacing the signal then asking the TV to deinterlace it.
Also a lot of folks with new HD stuff don't give their TV scalers enough credit, these things are good, most of them excellent, especially in the big-brand sets. So doing what you are doing is definately the smarter way to go for a crisper un-raped signal.
Nicholas,
That is a nobel endevor and one I fully support. I just wanted to add that every 1080p set out right now (the new Sony A2000s, the Samsung 87 series and the Mits 731/732/831 series) all create a bit of overscan, on par with about 3% when displaying a PC signal. So if this is a huge thing for you, make sure the set you are looking at provides adjustments to correct for this, or even your PC can do it (but only if it's hooked up over a VGA (uggg) or DVI (yay) connection, over DVI->HDMI the PC cannot get timing information and most won't understand what they are hooked up to, in which case you will need to rely on the set for the correction controls.
May already have been pointed out, but unless you dropped $10k on your Plasma relatively recently, it's not a 1080p display, so displaying 720p is most likely going to look the best on that set.
This is what the French do while we make fun of them... game over man, they win :(