On today's 1080p TVs?

blk_diesel wrote on 9/14/2010, 8:02 PM

is there a significant difference in picture quality from video cams that record 1080i; 1080p-30p or 1080p-60p when outputted to blu ray or tape? I understand there are issues with todays blu ray players and TVs playing 60p video. Just started playing around with hd and I see all the different HD formats and was wondering how the end result looks on todays TVs. I have a Sony FX1 so I will be working with HDV.

Comments

Rob Franks wrote on 9/15/2010, 5:06 AM

60p can't be output to Blu Ray... it's not part of the spec and isn't presently supported.

bsuratt wrote on 9/15/2010, 8:27 AM

HDV to Blu-ray looks really great on high quality HDTV's. No problems with Sony Blu-ray players.

Jeff9329 wrote on 9/15/2010, 10:18 AM

30p can't be output to Blu Ray either. It's also not part of the spec and isn't presently supported.

HD-DVD supported 30P and 60P natively.

PeterDuke wrote on 9/15/2010, 6:48 PM

"30p can't be output to Blu Ray either"

You can pretend it is 60i and the effect is the same.
(OK then, why isn't it?)

Sidecar wrote on 9/15/2010, 8:43 PM

I started with 1080-60i AVCHD from a Canon HF-S100, edited native AVCHD in Vegas 9e 64 bit, rendered out to 16mpbs Sony AVC, burned to a DVD (not a Blu-ray) which played fine in my Sony BDP-560 and my Sony BDP-360.

The picture on a 52" XBR-7 is stunning, even from that tiny one-chip camera.

Couldn't do this at any price just a few years ago. Now I'm doing it at home for a hobby.

R0cky wrote on 9/16/2010, 8:31 AM

blu ray supports 1280x720 59.94p so you could export 30p that way.

rocky

Jeff9329 wrote on 9/17/2010, 8:45 AM

"30p can't be output to Blu Ray either"

I agree the 60i delivered end result of using native 30P is generally (maybe exactly) the same, 100% higher temporal resolution per full frame than 60i native, it's just 30P in a 60i container.