How is the picture quality when displaying 480i content from source (up-conversion performed by TV)?
770834
About average, I have not found many devices that do this really well, but in my experience the decent blu ray players provide a pretty decent conversion for DVD sources
1618834
Slight. Yes, Im that guy using a ps2 with monster component cables. There is a microscopic lag, but not enough to worry about. Even fast fighing games, Doa ran great, as did other twitch games. Games look better if they are 480p, but 480i (most ps2 games) is acceptable. Im playing Final Fantasy 12 on this tv(480i) and it looks great.
1861068
This system will upconvert to 1080i, but only when using HDMI. It isn't a very good upscale, however, and seems quite blocky for picture quality. This came as a bit of a shock as the PS3 upconverts and upscales so well for DVD's that they almost appear to be in high def. Don't get this system for it's DVD playback capabilities!
406428
i sugest selecting the 480i output on your dvd player and letting your hdtv handle the video processing. but do so through hdmi or component video cables. then let the player do the video processing (upconversion) again and decide which picture you prefer. see the sound and vision mag article "upconversion: facts and fallacies" for more info on the subject.
254516
Yes, the up conversion on this set is amazing. I have a Panasonic plasma 1080p and the difference really is amazing.
1646533
I have it set to Hi as well but I wouldn't think it is more than 480p at absolute best. Pretty grainy. Good camera for the price but for good detail that your looking for can cost upwards of a $1000 and doesn't work with this system. my 2 cents...
248130
Yes it upscales even 480p to UHD 3840x2160. The better the source, the better the upscale quality, 4K mastered Blu-Rays and even streamed 1080p look fantastic..even better than my 1440p computer monitor.
75492
You can adjust the aspect ratio so that it fills the entire screen, but that would distort the picture somewhat. I like to put it in 4:3 mode, so it looks like a normal picture. Burn-in warnings be damned! But you'll be watching the important stuff through the HD air antenna anyway.I think the SD picture is just okay. It's a bit pixelated (probably because of the size of the TV) and the colors don't seem as sharp as my 23-year old Sony Trinitron. Once you see the HD picture, SD will look that much worse.
426586
You will improve your picture even more if you drop all of those and put up an antenna. Comcast, Dish, and all the others get their digital signals from the television stations. The same stations broadcast in digital over the air. The only difference is that the cable and dish companies compress the signal to get more bandwidth, so technically, the free over the air signal is your best bet. I live in a major metropolitan area and get about 40 channels for free off the air. (Not counting analog.) It was a major step up from cable. 720p is not the problem. It's doubtful that you could tell the difference on that alone. A 1080i broadcast of a 1960 sitcom will look no better on 1080i than on a 480i broadcast and a 1080i broadcast that is (re)run on a lower definition digital channel will lack resolution despite being digital. It all depends on the source and resolution, and not all digital channels are high def. The problem is that with a bad picture, your new set is very good at showing you every detail of it. When TV went color, there were still lots of black and white shows. When it became stereo, there were still lots of mono broadcasts. These days, you don't see NBC's peacock telling you that the show is in glorious living color, and the TV stations don't flash the "stereo" logo. But they might have a "now in HD" logo. In a few years, that will go away because it will be normal for things to be in HD. Then the cable companies will have to rethink all the low bandwidth channels that they throw at you. But for now, you will get your share of low def shows, shows in a square box, and letterbox within a 4*3 box leaving half the picture blank. The advantage of your Sony is that things will only get better. Having a TV that's better than the broadcast is better than the other way around.
884879
It does not upconvert images. I would route HDMI through the receiver, and component straight to the TV.
2057821
I wish I can be more helpful but have not used it in a while. I do remember I had my apple computer and my Sanyo HDTV set to 1080I and the picture looked good but the Sanyo was slightly less sharper then the Computer. While playing a DVD on the MAC and watching it on the Sanyo, I believe the picture on the Sanyo looked better. (Sharper with more detail)
1753561
yes I found a chart for this model which says "offers full hd upsampling" I'm sure you realize that upscaled sd sources--i.e. 480i dvds-- can only looks so good when upscaled. in other words it won't look close to true 1080p hd quality. but it will offer noticeable improvement over native 480i. hope this helps. Arkadin
1801848
Original resolution, as some had mentioned. The reason why is so when you send it to a CRT, you'll still get scanlines for most of the old systems you throw at it. (Though I suppose something like a Dreamcast would actually do 480i for most of its games???)If you need something to upscale to 480p, you'll actually want a proper scaler like the Framemeister (if you can throw down that much money anyway), or possibly an HDMI converter if you don't mind going up to 720p/1080p.
321868
What do you mean you're using the same source? If it's cable, the actual quality may vary from program to program. Make sure you are comparing it on the same quality programs (e.g. use the same talk show). Reset picture quality to factory defaults.
176656
Depending on your setup, this is incorrect.If you have an HDMI cable out to your TV, any input signal is getting upconverted. That means if you have a composite cable at 480i going in, it's getting sent at the highest possible conversion. Of course, there's only so much you can do with a 480i signal, so it doesn't look all that much better - but yes, there is upconversion happening.
285016
I use a converter and get really good picture quality. Is it top end? Don't know but to the naked eye it looks great.
1804001
No quality improment. It just very much do the conversion so you can use hdmi port