Category Archives: Interlacing

How HDMI can make your DVD picture quality worse!

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

This only applies to PAL DVDs. But beware, most DVD players will by default play most PAL DVDs with poor picture quality via HDMI or, for that matter, progressive scan component video connections. Read all about it in my new … Continue reading →

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What output resolution to use for HDTV?

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

Okay, you have a nice shiny new high definition TV receiver. You work through its setup menus and discover you can set its high definition output resolution to 576p, 720p or 1080i. Which should you use? Preferably, none of them. … Continue reading →

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To Interlace or De-interlace

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

Interlacing is becoming an important matter these days. Why? Because our TV screens are getting bigger, so the problems it can cause are becoming far more obvious. So what is interlacing? Back in the early days of TV, the engineers … Continue reading →

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What’s all this about 1080p?

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

I had a chat with one of my editors yesterday about a piece I’d done on high definition video, in which I hadn’t mentioned 1080p. In Australia, the legislated high definition TV standards are 576p, 720p and 1080i. The ‘p’ … Continue reading →

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Independence Day gets re-released, remastered in Australia

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Stephen Dawson

In the middle of last year I pointed out a major deficiency in the mastering of the Australian PAL version of Independence Day. Namely, for the bulk of the movie, most of the video frames are constituted by fields from … Continue reading →

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Resolution Misconceptions

Posted on November 25, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

I keep on finding the claim that progressive scan video necessarily gives a high resolution than interlaced video. For example, take this from AudioVideo101.com: HDTV signals broadcast at 60 Hz, the standard for broadcast television, vary in what scanning format … Continue reading →

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