hd tv--full or hd ready

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help a friend has asked me to ask whfi forum if you can help

he has a hd ready plasma tv fed by blu ray his tv is accepting full hd signals and is working ok with this-- but his tv is hd ready tv and thinks it is 720p or1020i hd and is wondering wether to set blu ray to ouput this or keep at full res output as his tv is working perfectly well in full hd will this harm tv in any way...

 

[Anonymous]

Hi, it is really difficult to read your post without punctuation so please use it.

Anyway if his hd ready tv is 720p/1080i then it MAY be best for him to set his blu ray to output 720p/1080i as well otherwise the tv is accepting 1080p and then downscaling it to 720p/1080i for display.

The tv will not display 1080p so it's kind of pointless sending it. No? Try and see it it makes a difference.

R

 

[Sorreltiger]

His TV is more likely to be 768p, so I'd try both alternatives and see what's best. ÿIf you make the TV upscale from 720p, you're losing some of the Blu-Ray signal. ÿ It might be better to give it all of the information, which it has to condense. ÿThat's certainly my experience.ÿ

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[Anonymous]

thanks guys much appreciated ive let him know.

 

[professorhat]

Also, I think you asked if sending the signal at 1080p would harm the TV in any way, when it can't output that resolution. The answer is no, if the TV is showing an image when it's set at 1080p, then the TV is downscaling the image as it's an HD Ready set, not a Full HD set. This does not harm the set so if he prefers the picture at this setting, there's absolutely no danger in using it.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

IMHO I personally would leave the settings on the Blu-Ray player to 1080p if you friends Plasma is happy to accept it and display it at a lower resolution due mainly to the fact that I doubt if the Blu-Ray player has a resolution setting exactly matching the native resolution of His Plasma, so you would be geiitin the Blu-Ray player to downscale the 1080p image to say 720p then His screen would then be re-scaling this 720p signal to say 768p of most HD ready sets which IMHO is too much un-needed picture processing that can result in unwanted picture noise.

 

[Anonymous]

cheers i was also thinking that would be the case.passed this on to my mate -.we are more into hi fi than home cinema but were slowly getting there with all this new technology --- hard going for us over 40s