Re: progressive scan/line doubling?

[apcarandang]

You can only see the benefits of a progressive scan DVD player with a DTV or HDTV or a TV with 480p inputs. In a regular analog TV all you''ll see is the interlaced video.<p>A TV with a very good deinterlacer will do wonders with a interlaced scan DVD player through the S-video input.<p>If the TV accepts 480P, then a progressive scan DVD player will bypass the TV''s internal deinterlacer with connected to the component inputs.( 480p DOES NOT pass through the S-video output)<p>The 3:2 pulldown is necessary to produce a very fluid motion in the video. Without it fast moving objects will exhited some kind or video artifact that may not be noticeable ot really irritating.<p>There are several ways to implement the 3:2 pulldown depending on the chipset used in the DVD player.<p>DVD recorders at this time record in interlaced mode. ( Copyright issues ) The DVD player will read it as a video and not film sourced material.<p>having a progressive scan DVD player is a MUST if you have a TV that will accept 480p signals. Otherwise a regular DVD player should be okay.<p>With prices of progressive scan DVD players now so low buying one now is not a bad idea.<p>Hope this helps.<p><br /> wink.gif border=0

Thanks for your excellent reply. One sticking point, though, is that you say the DVD records only as interlaced (sees the source as video, not film). Does that mean that that a master DVd recording (say from Sony picutres, etc) interprets an incoming 24fps movie as video (not doing pulldown), as opposed to Sony pictures recording the master Videocassette from the same film source, where the telecine process would do the pulldown? I guess you can see my confusion. If the pulldown has already been done in the telecine process, wouldn''t the recording DVD get the benefit of that pulldown, or does Sonsy, for example, master the videocassette from a film using telecine and pulldown, and master the DVD from the film not suing pulldown. Thus you would need to do the pulldown on the video source using a progressive scan DVD player. Thanks for your patience.

[apcarandang]

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