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Old 10-21-2010, 10:57 PM
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Yes 480P isn't HD, but if the source is a DVD player with a DVD that was sourced from a film shot on film, it will look significantly better than 480I upconverted to 480P. DVDs of films are MPEG 2 encoded at 480P 24 frames a second and were usually, via a "3:2 pulldown" converted to 60Hz. And then you throw away half the scan lines to get 480I. Might as well have it keep those lines. When my brother bought himself a flatscreen HDTV I helped him set up his DVD player to feed it 480P.
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