salsa-king

I have the denon DHT500SD running off Componant cables from the TV/FreeView (picture)

when watching a DVD.. do you press Progressive Scan on the front of the DHT500SD each time?


or tell me when and where/why you use Progressive Scan on the system please

tried this question on AV forum... but i don't think anyone goes on there. lol

tnx

prodriva

Isn't it something to do with keeping the sound in sync with the images being produced. I could be wrong though!?!

Hanslow

Alright Phil I take it you never bothered searching on AVForums before posting on there? I just had a look to see what I could find and found your post plus a good explanation here.

Not specific to your Denon, but explains what it is....

Hanslow

More useful guff here as well

GC8

Progressive scan as opposed to imterlaced... Traditionally television sets have only re-written even and then odd TV lines in turn; 25 times each per second. Thi swas because it simply wasnt possible to redraw the whole picture all in one go. We use 50Hz mains electricity and you get one re-draw every peak; which gave 25 effective frames per second (America uses 60Hz and gets 30 fps...). This interlaced picture was actually better for television. Interlaced PC displays flicker very noticably and use progressive scan; where the whole picture is re-drawn in one go, 50, 70 or 80 odd times a second.

If your DVD has a progressive scan output then youll see a noticable benefit when using it with a gas plasma or an LCD display.

RB5201

To put it simple, normal tv is displayed by lots of horizontal lines, these get displayed down the screen first in odds then in even numbers, ie 1,3,5,7 and 2,4,6,8 etc, so fast you dont really notice it. Progressive scan diplays the horizontal lines in order, 1,2,3,4,5,6, again so fast you dont notice it but enough to give you a slightly better/smooter picture.

Hope this helps.

salsa-king

thats heavy going.


so if i watch a DVD i should press the progressive scan buttn on the dvd player... this will give a better picture???
TBH i thought my player/tv were very clear viewing anyway!


Steve, you going on sunday?

Phil

Hanslow

Obviously not as I've no idea where you are going, or anyone else Have I missed something (as usual)?

salsa-king

xmas meet on the 8th at the Priory on Derby rd.. like every year

Hanslow

LOL news to me Will see how we're fixed and will try and get down. We're out near Matlock now so it's a bit further, but not too far

Leslie

Progressive scan is significantly better than interlaced especially for moving pictures since the response time to movement is effectively better. This is also one reason why Plasma screens are better for a moving picture than an LCD screen which still has a slower response time.

Les

salsa-king

i was told Plasma were slower than LCD!!??

Phil