Re: Is Oppo the way to go?

On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:14:43 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> On Wed, 07 May 2008 07:35:46 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |> On Wed, 07 May 2008 00:54:31 GMT Fishface <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |> | Theodore Bundy wrote:
|> |> | 
|> |> |>I want to get an upconverting DVD player that will play DVD+R
discs.
|> |> |> Reading reviews seems to cite the Oppo as doing the best job. 
Any
|> |> |> thoughts on competing products?  TIA.
|> |> | 
|> |> | I don't know, but the cheap upconverting Sony I got at Costco for
half
|> |> | the price looks fine to me and came with an HDMI cable.  Only
upconverts
|> |> | via the HDMI connection. 
|> |> 
|> |> And what will an HD TV do if it gets video that is NOT upconverted?
|> |> 
|> | 
|> | 
|> | The Sony TVs here will convert to their native 1080p resolution using

|> | 24fps/30fps with 120Hz frame rate where necessary.
|> 
|> At what rate is the LCD grid being updated (this question does not
apply to
|> non-LCD displays)?
|> 
|> What I want to know is why can't they simply make the TV update the LCD
grid
|> at exactly the frame rate the incoming video has (as long as the video
frame
|> rate does not exceed the rate the TV is able to process ... which
should be
|> at least as wide as from 23.976fps to 60fps).
|> 
| 
| 
| The Sony display here has a 120Hz "Motionoflow" feature, which provides 
| a 60fps 'refresh' rate.  This can be hobbled if I want, and I tested 
| without it using 30fps SD DVD material and noticed the "bumble bee" 
| effect in fast motion frames, presumably an artifact of the upconversion

| process.  The instant I re-activated Motionflow, all was mucho bettero.

Sounds like a motion interpolation feature.  Fast moving content needs to
be recorded ay 60fps.


| What I don't know is whether Motionflow is still technically active for 
| 24fps DVD material, and if so, why?  I guess I need to go dig out a few 
| 24fps DVD's and test without Motionflow active.

It could still be.  Why not?

What I think we need are some specific test DVDs and BR-DVDs that verify
how
things behave at various formats and frame rates.

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