
While watching Discovery-HD's live HD broadcast of the Rose Parade, I noted that the HD PQ wasn't as good as some I had been watching. I'm watching a Sammie HLN507W DLP with a 720p native resolution and my 811 is set to input HD at 720p (what seems the logical set up).
Based on something I had read on the AVSForum, I entered the HDTV set-up menu on my 811 and changed the input setting from 720p to 1080i. Well, what a dramatic improvement. What is happening here is that the 1080i signal from Dis-HD is being converted to my DLP's 720p native resolution by the DLP's scaler rather than the 811's scaler. The Sammie's scaler is apparently superior to that in the 811 (for $3,400 more, go figure).
Now I'm leaving the HD set-up input on 1080i unless I'm watching ESPN-HD or ABC-HD (which I haven't been able to get OTA yet), which broadcast in 720p (the NFL on ESPN-HD has produced the most breath-taking HD I've seen to date; 720p seems the smoother HD format). It sure would be nice if the 811's HD input selector was easier to change than to have to go 3-deep in the Menu and down 4 clicks.
Anyway, I offer this up to other DLP/811 users who might be wondering why all of their HD PQ isn't as good as they had hoped.
Happy New Year!
Based on something I had read on the AVSForum, I entered the HDTV set-up menu on my 811 and changed the input setting from 720p to 1080i. Well, what a dramatic improvement. What is happening here is that the 1080i signal from Dis-HD is being converted to my DLP's 720p native resolution by the DLP's scaler rather than the 811's scaler. The Sammie's scaler is apparently superior to that in the 811 (for $3,400 more, go figure).
Now I'm leaving the HD set-up input on 1080i unless I'm watching ESPN-HD or ABC-HD (which I haven't been able to get OTA yet), which broadcast in 720p (the NFL on ESPN-HD has produced the most breath-taking HD I've seen to date; 720p seems the smoother HD format). It sure would be nice if the 811's HD input selector was easier to change than to have to go 3-deep in the Menu and down 4 clicks.
Anyway, I offer this up to other DLP/811 users who might be wondering why all of their HD PQ isn't as good as they had hoped.
Happy New Year!