Having bought a Panasonic TH37PX80 just after they were released (JL c/w 5 year warranty price matched S&V - very happy), and a PS3 at christmas I have a question regarding whether there is a general concensus as to the best combination of settings. Whilst the TV will happily handle 1080p and I presume downscale to 720p, and the PS3 will output at a variety of settings, is there any benefit in outputting from the PS3 in 1080p. Currently the PS3 is predominantly used for gaming and DVD playback (have only tried one Blu-Ray disc so far), whilst it can upscale the DVD's, I assume that anything above 720p then requires the picture to be downscaled and therefore the PS3 is best configured to be set to output 720p? Appreciate any helpful/insightful comments or opinions.
Panasonic TH37PX80/PS3 - Any benefit in putting out 1080p over 720p
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professorhat
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It's all down to personal preference. I don't have a Full HD TV but set my PS3 to output at 1080p as I think the picture looks just slightly crisper than when set to 720p. It may be that this is because my TV actually has a resolution of 1024 x 768, meaning it would actually have to be upscaling the 720p output slightly, whereas with 1080p, it's downscaling it.
However, I've seen other posts where people have preferred using 720p.
However, I've seen other posts where people have preferred using 720p.
tvmog
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I guess it depends on a combination of the source material and the merits of each piece of equipments scaler. If you upscale your DVDs to 1080p and then the Panny downscales to 720p then you've introduced two points of processing, and the conventional wisdom seems to be the less processing the better. If the material is designed for 1080p playback then its a case of seeing which peice of equipment downscales better. Having said that, I cannot actually detect any difference on my 37PX80 between setting my upscaling DVD player to 720 or 1080. Ultimately it is about what looks best to you.
Yes, this was my thought process. Based on the assumption that the least amount of pipeline processing the better I have set both games and movies to be output at 720p, I did attempt some back to back comparisons between this and 1080p but found it hard to see any significant difference. I was purely interested to know what others had found and what was the general concensus. I will probably try more comparisons when I next get access to a Blu-Ray disc.
That all being said, it all looks absolutely fantastic
and I'm so happy that I plumped for this over LCD (which I always found annoying that I could see the pixelation the majority of the time).
On a separate note (but related) I bought a HDMI cable from Mark Grant cables and have also been very pleased with this over a cheapy alternative, I can heartily recommend them and they are a lovely blue colour!
That all being said, it all looks absolutely fantastic
On a separate note (but related) I bought a HDMI cable from Mark Grant cables and have also been very pleased with this over a cheapy alternative, I can heartily recommend them and they are a lovely blue colour!
Most games are 720p, and as the 37PX80 is 1024x720, I would have thought setting the PS3 to 720p would be the best option for gaming and SD DVDs, (1080p for BluRay?)
professorhat
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Yes this is true. To be fair, I can't really tell a difference on the Blu-Rays I've tried it on, the one thing that showed it up for me was GT5 Prologue (which is a 1080p game) - it just looked better in 1080p than 720p so I just stick with that for everything now.
One thing I've yet to do is set the PS3 to 576p and see if my Onkyo 905 is better at the upscaling than the PS3.
One thing I've yet to do is set the PS3 to 576p and see if my Onkyo 905 is better at the upscaling than the PS3.
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