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my tv is capable of 720 p and 1080i...how do i get it to play at 720p....it drops to 480p and i downloaded the 1.32 update?
richport
12-29-2006, 18:17
my tv is capable of 720 p and 1080i...how do i get it to play at 720p....it drops to 480p and i downloaded the 1.32 update?
Blu-ray doesn't support 720p, only 1080i and 1080p
consoleboi
12-29-2006, 18:18
I'm assuming your TV also supports 1080i, you turn that resolution on as well.
Unfortunately Sony for some reason or another turned off 720P support on blu-ray playback in the last few updates.
Hopefully this will be remedied in near future updates.
consoleboi
12-29-2006, 18:18
Blu-ray doesn't support 720p, only 1080i and 1080p
It's not that blu-ray doesn't support it, it just Sony made a boo boo. I believe before the 3rd update, it allowed 720P playback.
john99sem
12-29-2006, 18:20
but if you're tv supports 1080i why not use that?
UltimaEnder
12-29-2006, 18:24
That blows man but just use 1080i, its MUCH better than 480p and not much worse than 720p (depending on your TV)....
newps3man22
12-29-2006, 19:40
what is this blue ray disk everybody is saying comes with the ps3 i got a ps3 last night the 60 gig and didnt find it in the box?
Emotep032
12-29-2006, 19:40
Why would you use 720p for Blu-Ray? I use 1080p. :D
what is this blue ray disk everybody is saying comes with the ps3 i got a ps3 last night the 60 gig and didnt find it in the box?
It's the Talladega Nights movie, and it was only included in the first 400,000 or so PS3 systems (some say 500,000).
Why would you use 720p for Blu-Ray? I use 1080p. :D
i know me too :rolleyes: ---- be nice
Emotep032
12-29-2006, 19:44
Hehe. Here's Monster House BD in 1080p. :D
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/Emotep032/IMGP0161.jpg
shug7272
12-29-2006, 19:45
What type of connection are you using. It sounds like you are using an analog connection from your ps3 to TV.
Send the signal as 1080i from the PS3, and have your TV downscale it to 720p. or i guess your tv can't do that. sorry.:(
yeah i don't have 1080p so i watch it in 1080i....i figured it out...thanks guys
Emotep032
12-29-2006, 20:20
There are people who dont have 1080?
shug7272
12-29-2006, 20:36
There are people who dont have 1080?Sure, they still make "HDTV's" that cant even do 1080i.
Bl@ck M@gic
12-29-2006, 21:55
I have a Samsung LE23R71B does anyone know if this TV will be able to downscale 1080i to 720p. Also why the hell did Sony 'turn' off 720p playback on Blu-rays with the PS3, that's just annoying and stupid. Are they going to enable this feature again. Now why the hell would I buy any Blu-rays just to watch them in 480p.
Emotep032
12-29-2006, 21:58
I have a Samsung LE23R71B does anyone know if this TV will be able to downscale 1080i to 720p. Also why the hell did Sony 'turn' off 720p playback on Blu-rays with the PS3, that's just annoying and stupid. Are they going to enable this feature again. Now why the hell would I buy any Blu-rays just to watch them in 480p.
Because Blu-Ray discs are encoded at 1080p. Outputting 720p is basically pointless. You might as well set it to output at 1080i and let your TV downscale it if your TV is 720p native.
grangerfx
12-30-2006, 06:51
My projector does a decent (not perfect) job of down scaling from 1080p to 720p. When I got the PS3 on the release day one of the first things I tried was playing Taladega Nights at 720p and 1080p via the PS3 screen resolution settings. The 1080p version looked a lot better and I have not tried it again since. Sony probably disabled 720p because it looked so bad. Hopefully they will figure out how to scale video soon and all these problems will be behind us. I am still amazed they did not put a scaling chip in the PS3. For $600 it should have had one.
PunkRockDoc
12-30-2006, 07:12
How can you tell what resolution it's playing in? I have a 1080p TV, and the PS3 set to automatic resolution picking. Just watched Talledega tonight, and it looked good, but didn't blow me away. Some of the background on darker screens looked grainy. I wonder if this is the transfer to Blue Ray, or if it wasn't in the correct resolution.
IceStorm
12-30-2006, 07:56
Because Blu-Ray discs are encoded at 1080p. Outputting 720p is basically pointless. You might as well set it to output at 1080i and let your TV downscale it if your TV is 720p native.The PS3 has the horsepower to properly rescale a 1080i image to 720p.
Many TVs cheat, and simply rescale every 1920x540 field to a 1280x720 frame. This results in a loss of around 180 lines of resolution.
It's better the player do the format conversion, provided the player does a proper job of it.
To-date, the PS3, from firmware rev 1.10 to 1.32, has never rescaled Blu-ray. What people may not realize is that the resolution preference order changed from 1080p/720p/1080i/480p to 1080p/1080i/720p/480p in the XMB. Whereas before your XMB stayed at 720p until a Blu-ray movie was inserted, now it stays at 1080i.
A 1080i image has more detail while a 720p image is more solid
for movies 1080i is best due to scenes in films being less active
but games have a lot of movement in them with the camera moving everytime you move your character/car on screen
so 720p is better for games and 1080p is even better
EMAGDNIM
12-31-2006, 06:10
Why would you use 720p for Blu-Ray? I use 1080p. :D
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