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1080P TVs w/ 1080i input...is my future screwed or okay?

by K3lly123 Mar 23, 2006 11:28AM PST

So, what happens in the near future when 1080P input from Blu-Ray or HD-DVD is common and I've bought a 1080P TV but it only accepts 1080i input? Will I be able to feed a signal to my TV and only see a downgrade to 1080i? Sony XBR is what I've committed to w/ salesman promising that the 1080P DVD players would still work on the Sony with the slight downgrade in quality. He seemed to think you could feed the 1080p signal from the DVD player to your TV via HDMI cables and the TV would just process what it could which is 1080i. Does everyone agree? Thanks for your help.

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Here we go again...
by kena10 Mar 23, 2006 2:52PM PST

I asked the same question in a different post. Since I have the KDS-R60XBR1, I asked the same question and I'm still assuming that what's going to happen is that while the tv can accept an HDMI singal from the DVP-S1 (Sony's upcoming BD player), the signal will be downconverted to 1080i, then picked up by the tv as a 1080i signal and upconverted to 1080p.

Since the native resolution of the tv is 1080p but the tv doesn't have a 1080p input, the only thing it can do is downconvert and upconvert being that it upconverts any source coming in to 1080p.

One of the other things I heard from one of the various salespeople I spoke with regarding this set months before buying it was that they heard that Sony was going to have some sort of add-on piece to the tv so it could have a 1080p input. It sounds bogus to me but that's what I heard.

Realistically, if Sony was going to do something to allow the XBR1 tv's accept a 1080p signal, I would imagine that they would release a software patch and have it uploaded to the tv as a firmware update through the tv's service port (right below the firewire ports).

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-xsESh3ztJIA/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=147350&id=morephotos&pi=6&i=158SR50XBR&display=XL#Tab

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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i'm pretty sure
by masterying01 Mar 23, 2006 5:14PM PST

they do have an update....for the qualia series, but none for the xbr sxrd's.
i could be way wrong.

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1 MORE 1080I vs1080P QUESTION
by stewart norrie Mar 24, 2006 2:33AM PST

No one seems to have an answer to this, I do know that my Toshiba does 1080I and I understand that cnet and cnet movies broadcast in 1080I and the picture quality on these stations are stunning, So if a 1080P d.v.d. player look as good as my 1080I picture I would shout for joy stewart

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NEWS FROM SONY
by stewart norrie Mar 24, 2006 3:59AM PST

Just called Sony and the word is. Your 1080I t.v. will work fine with there 1080P blue ray player. So if you have a 1080I set the picture should be beautiful, But I have to see it for my self before I believe it but whatever happens I will not buy until Iam able to rent or buy new movies , its like beta-max and v.h.s. this screw up means we may never see hi-def d.v.d. take off good luck stewart

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Interesting
by kena10 Mar 24, 2006 1:28PM PST

Hey Stew,

thx for calling Sony directly. Though I like to give u **** every now & then I appreciate you taking the time to clarify the issue.

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Thanks for your input
by K3lly123 Mar 24, 2006 7:31AM PST

I feel better now. I'll know in about a year when I may actually buy one of those players. I should mention that Best Buy did have a 1080p Mitsu w/ 1080i input on the display floor hooked up to one of Toshiba's new HD DVD players w/ a 1080P Demo disc in it. It was working but I couldn't validate that the material on the disc was actually 1080P other than the salesman said it was.

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its most likely "fake" 1080p
by masterying01 Mar 24, 2006 1:11PM PST

cause the hdmi on that tv doesnt take in a true 1080p signal. so the signal starts off 1080p, drops down to 1080i when it enters the tv through hdmi, then the tv converts it back to 1080p to fit the native resolution. i saw the same setup at fry's, but with a 72hm195 (*chuckles at stewart*)....and it looked pretty good....downside is that...its not a real movie so you wont know until then.


on a side note....netflix will start to carry HD DVD movies. great way to test out certain movies in HD before you buy.

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