Interlaced HD monitors?

Hulk wrote on 3/11/2005, 10:40 PM

I am specifically wondering what, if any, HD monitors are capable of displaying 1080i video in a interlaced native format?

LCD, Plasma, Front Projection, and Rear Projection are all inherently progressive devices so any interlaced video will have to be deinterlaced for viewing on these monitor types. That is unless you would rather leave the video interlaced (weaved) and view the jaggies during parts of the video that contain motion.

HD 1080i with a resolution of 1920x1080 could be viewed natively on an interlaced monitor if it supports that resolution, i.e. no scaling required since the format uses square pixels.

HDV 1080i, being anamorphic 1440x1080 scaled to 1920x1080 would at least need to be scaled to 1920 since all HD monitors use square pixels.

So I'm wondering if any CRT based HD monitors will "do" 1080i at 60i and not simply playback both fields of each frame simultaneously at 30fps?

Any comments/info appreciated.

- Mark

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Yoyodyne wrote on 3/11/2005, 11:08 PM

There is a pretty informative thread down a ways called "HDV and external monitoring" that should give you some answers. The short reply is that all the CRT HD sets I've seen will give you interlaced 1080i & most of em' look pretty good. The champ seems to be the Sony 910/960 XBR's but I'm also partial to the Panny CT34WX53.

Hulk wrote on 3/12/2005, 8:38 AM

Thanks for the reply, yes I have read that thread.

Are you SURE any of these monitors display 1080i in a true interlaced format, not just ACCEPT 1080i?

Remember 60i would be an interlaced refresh rate of 60 cycles per second, not just slapping both fields up at once at 30 cycles per second. There is a difference as in the former motion will appear smoother and jaggies less pronounced, as in interlaced TV display.

- Mark