480p, highest resolution?

[Skylab™]

With several DVD players out there now claiming 720p and 1080i output of DVD's, will the next generation of DVD's be higher resolution than 480p?

I held off on the Samsung DVI DVD player, because if DVD's are 480p, what's the purpose of a Company "claiming" higher resolution than the data it's reading?



*Confused*

Skylab™



(make the smoke go away!) :mad:

[Ratman]

All DVD's are 480i.

The DVD players will deinterlace the material and output at 480p for a nice improvement in picture quality.

The players that tout 720p/1080i output still have to deal with 'manipulating' 480i material. May be of benefit to some (and id so, very little)... but IMO, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!

I'll wait...

[57U]

See the FAQ on DVI Connections.

[Skylab™]

Ahh, so it is some kind of marketing gimmick. I went with the Mitsu DD-8040 player. Very impressed.


The basis of the first post (that didn't come out right) was the fact that dvd's are 480i. Is that the best they can do right now?

Has any company tried making a DVD that is higher resolution?

or

Is the DVD capability currently "maxed out"?


Skylab™

[57U]

They can put anything they want on a DVD, it's just digital information.

1. They've already done Terminator 2 at HD, but it's only viewable on a PC.

2. They could put HD on a DVD, but you couldn't get a whole movie on one DVD, let alone extras. They don't want to go to the two-disk (as was done for laser disk) route for a movie (customer survey?)

3. At this point in time, most people are more than happy with DVD quality, since their TV cannot do any better (we HD people don't count, remember we're about 1% of the population)

[mikehbkwm]

i was reading an article on hometheaterhifi and it stated microsoft and samsung are in a joint venture right now to produce the first HD-DVD player using the windows media 9 format on the disk and player.... very very interesting stuff because microsoft is ahead of the game because like 57 said that T2 disk is in HD and another one called something Motown is also in the same format... lets hope samsung puts this player out.........

[spaceman_spiff]

Originally posted by mikehbkwm
microsoft and samsung are in a joint venture right now to produce the first HD-DVD player using the windows media 9 format on the disk and player
I read something similar on AVS,
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=317486
Here is the excerpt

WM9 codec submitted to SMPTE

The tide is turning as Microsoft has submitted the WM9 codec to SMPTE for consideration as a HD standard. I have seen this in action at the CEDIA show in the Samsung room coming from a hard drive displayed on a stunning Samsung/Joe Kane DLP 720P projector . The files were shown at different bit rates between 6 and 9Mb/sec which fits an HDTV movie on a RED LASER DVD format.

This means HDTV movies on todays DVD platform are available now and not 3 years ( the time it will take Sony and the group of 8 to bring Blue Ray to market ). There are 3 movies available now "T2" , "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"and Joe kane's anounced DVE (Digital video Essentials) test disc . They are offered in a double disk set one 480i version and the other a WM9 HDTV version.

Samsung and Denon / Marantz have announced there new universal HDTV DVD players will incorporate the new Sigma Design chip to decode WM9 bit stream (If these two are involved you can bet many more will follow). They will be available shortly and the subsequent software needed will follow (100 titles slated for the coming year) .

This is what was posted by another member about Denon HD DVD player, they say about a year away from true HD DVD player.

We have not announced a player yet with WM9 capability yet. We are investigating the inclusion of WM9 playback for future models, but none in the very near future. The DVD-5900 will most likely not be upgradeable to WM9 or any other HD DVD format, which format that will be has not yet been decided by the way. We are probably another year away at least from true HD DVD players in the market place.

Best regards,

Jeff Talmadge
Marketing Manager
DENON Electronics (USA), LLC.