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[x2 3600 rules sazakky]

I have a 55inch HItachi PLasma tv that displays 1368x768. What will the PS3 output to this TV and will the quality be good.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes, it is a "720p" display, which is what most PS3 (and 360) games render at.

Blu-ray will look very nice as well. Get a Netflix subscription, they carry almost every blu-ray released in the US. The PS3 also makes a good upscaling DVD player.

Get a HDMI cable for $10-15 from Monoprice or Newegg, and if you have a receiver get an optical digital cable for 5.1 surround. The PS3 uses standard cables for both.

If you wait until June 12 there will be a $499 Metal Gear Solid bundle that includes the 80 GB PS3 with ~90% PS2 compatibility, the Metal Gear game, and a Dual Shock 3 controller with rumble. The current 40 GB model does not include a rumble controller or PS2 backwards compatibility.

 

[x2 3600 rules sazakky]

does the 360 have dvd upscaling.

aslo, how does the upscaled dvd look on ps3

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: x2 3600 rules sazakky
does the 360 have dvd upscaling.

aslo, how does the upscaled dvd look on ps3

Yes, the 360 upscales too though most agree not quite as well as the PS3.

The PS3 looks better than upscaling DVD players under $100. Some reviewers say $300+ upscaling DVD players look better, at least when displaying test patterns.

 

[x2 3600 rules sazakky]

does dvd upscaling look hd or just a little better than sd

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: x2 3600 rules sazakky
does dvd upscaling look hd or just a little better than sd

In between. You can't magically add information that isn't there, you can only guess at what is missing.

DVD is 480 interlaced data (752x480 30 full frames per second), blu-ray data is 1920x1080 at 24, 30 or 60 fps. Blu-ray also can use 4 times the bitrate and more advanced compression formats so it's effectively even higher. Blu-ray offers 6 times the pixels, less compression artifacts, and richer colors.

FYI, cable HD is low-bitrate over-compressed MPEG2 junk compared to blu-ray. Comcast especially uses very low bitrates to fit in more channels.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: x2 3600 rules sazakky
does dvd upscaling look hd or just a little better than sd

In between. You can't magically add information that isn't there, you can only guess at what is missing.

DVD is 480 interlaced data (752x480 30 full frames per second), blu-ray data is 1920x1080 at 24, 30 or 60 fps. Blu-ray also can use 4 times the bitrate and more advanced compression formats so it's effectively even higher. Blu-ray offers 6 times the pixels, less compression artifacts, and richer colors.

FYI, cable HD is low-bitrate over-compressed MPEG2 junk compared to blu-ray. Comcast especially uses very low bitrates to fit in more channels.

Definitely. Most HD channels look better than upscaled DVD's, but some don't look that much better because of compression. Blu-ray (and HD-DVD I suppose) is HD as it should look.

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Yes, it is a "720p" display, which is what most PS3 (and 360) games render at.

Blu-ray will look very nice as well. Get a Netflix subscription, they carry almost every blu-ray released in the US. The PS3 also makes a good upscaling DVD player.

Get a HDMI cable for $10-15 from Monoprice or Newegg, and if you have a receiver get an optical digital cable for 5.1 surround. The PS3 uses standard cables for both.

If you wait until June 12 there will be a $499 Metal Gear Solid bundle that includes the 80 GB PS3 with ~90% PS2 compatibility, the Metal Gear game, and a Dual Shock 3 controller with rumble. The current 40 GB model does not include a rumble controller or PS2 backwards compatibility.

Whats the benefit of using Optical over HDMI for audio?

 

[MarkW]

There is no benefit at all. HDMI audio+video is usually the way to go.

Many older receievers don't have HDMI inputs (mine doesn't). So I have to resort to optical surround.

DTS-MA and many newer codecs require an HDMI audio signal. If you do optical, all sound is converted to a DTS 1.5 stream, in dvd's and movies at least.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: MarkW
There is no benefit at all. HDMI audio+video is usually the way to go.

Many older receievers don't have HDMI inputs (mine doesn't). So I have to resort to optical surround.

DTS-MA and many newer codecs require an HDMI audio signal. If you do optical, all sound is converted to a DTS 1.5 stream, in dvd's and movies at least.

^ all true, one addtion: many low-end or older receivers with HDMI only pass through the video signal, they don't read and process the audio signal. So even if your receiver acts as an HDMI switchbox you might still need an optional cable. Read The Friendly Manual to find out.