question on blurays in the PS3

so , i have started to buy blurays instead of DVDs and i have questions. My TV is an LCD HDTV 720p/1080i, but i guess blurays are intended to be in 1080p.... so is the PS3 smart enough to do the movies at 720p (this is what i have my resolution set at) or does it take the picture clear back to 480 due to the fact that my TV does not support 1080p?

Honestly Casino Royale does look good, but i cant say it was the leap in PQ that i was expecting over DVDs.... so im wondering if it does not actually do HD if you dont have 1080p

Yeah, I heard the 1.8 or so update to the PS3 fixed it so Blu-ray can play at 720p, never tested it though. Since launch it did go to 480p if you only had 720p enabled. So if you'e updated the PS3 recently it should be fine. And usually there's an info button on your tv remote that will display the signal it's receiving. Not sure if the PS3 will show it itoo if you hit the select button while watching the movie.

And 720p HD should look great already over DVD. Though, blu-ray quality varies from movie to movie. Sp even at 1080p if the film is not razor sharp like a 3D cg film it might look only a bit better than 720p. 720p already has 3 times the resolution as DVD, then it has no compression issues like DVDs do, so it looks even better because of a perfect pristine image every frame on top of being high resolution. Plus better color and handles dark scenes better.

Your tv is basically 720p or 768p even though it supports 720p/1080i. But if the PS3 had no fixed the 720p issue you'd still get the same quality if you had to choose 1080i, it would just downscaled it to the LCD native resolution of that 720p or 768p.

Blu Rays support all rez thru scaling it was just the ps3 didnt do it till 1.8 . I find that 1080i still looks better since Im not sure how the ps3 scales to 720p . Maybe its just me but meh lol, still like my games in 720p tho since its smoother on an lcd screen.

i find it kind of rediculous that bluray only supports 1080p..... i mean come on, 80% of HDTV owners have 720p/1080i sets.... bluray should be hitting a much larger market than just that 20% with 1080p....Roland123_basic

I think you are looking at this the wrong way. The movie discs are supposed to be 1080p, the highest out right now. No one would support the format if didn't, even those with a 720p or 1080i tv. This way it supports all HD formats at once. All Blu-ray players can change it to 720p and 1080i just the same as if it was that way on the discs. So you are not losing anything because it's 1080p, your gaining, because it sitll works fine with your 720p tv and then when you upgrade to 1080p your discs will look even better.

Also, the movies on the disc are the original 24fps at 1080p. If it was 1080i encoding it would actually take up more space because it would have to be 30fps on disc instead of 24. That would doom the format as it would permently add a jitter to the framerate with the 24fps to 30fps conversion, as that only duplicates some frames unevenly, causing a jitter. You still get a jitter on most 1080p tvs because the player converts 1080p to 60fps to support most tvs 60hz refresh rate, same with 60hz 720p tvs. Newer 120hz tvs can support direct 1080p 24fps and duplicated it 5 times evenly to 120hz and have no jitter at all. The PS3 had an update that lets it do 1080p24.

so after all of this information i guess i am still confused.... am i seeing HD picture when i play bluray disks on my 720p tv or not?Roland123_basic

lol I know it can be confusing and yes you are. 720p is about 4 , to 5 times the rez compared to a DVD. 1080p is great for sets for 40" and if your's is under that you wouldnt see a night and day difference. So in short yes you are seeing a HD picture.

[QUOTE="Roland123_basic"]so after all of this information i guess i am still confused.... am i seeing HD picture when i play bluray disks on my 720p tv or not?jetway2211

lol I know it can be confusing and yes you are. 720p is about 4 , to 5 times the rez compared to a DVD. 1080p is great for sets for 40" and if your's is under that you wouldnt see a night and day difference. So in short yes you are seeing a HD picture.

i guess i expected a much larger difference between DVDs on this TV and Blurays... oh well. atleast the color is really great.

i find it kind of rediculous that bluray only supports 1080p..... i mean come on, 80% of HDTV owners have 720p/1080i sets.... bluray should be hitting a much larger market than just that 20% with 1080p....Roland123_basic

I've got a 720p TV and Blu-Ray looks amazing. Don't let the worry stop you from getting them, haha...I don't think i'll ever buy a regular DVD ever againSkedarDragon

which can you recommend that look particularly amazing? i have casino royale, that is it.

so , i have started to buy blurays instead of DVDs and i have questions. My TV is an LCD HDTV 720p/1080i, but i guess blurays are intended to be in 1080p.... so is the PS3 smart enough to do the movies at 720p (this is what i have my resolution set at) or does it take the picture clear back to 480 due to the fact that my TV does not support 1080p?

Honestly Casino Royale does look good, but i cant say it was the leap in PQ that i was expecting over DVDs.... so im wondering if it does not actually do HD if you dont have 1080p

Roland123_basic

so after all of this information i guess i am still confused.... am i seeing HD picture when i play bluray disks on my 720p tv or not?Roland123_basic

so after all of this information i guess i am still confused.... am i seeing HD picture when i play bluray disks on my 720p tv or not?Roland123_basic

dude like the other people said, there should be some sort of "display" button to show you what res your tv is at. also, it depends on your tv also, some displays look better than others. jsut like how some blu ray disk look better than others.

[QUOTE="SkedarDragon"]I've got a 720p TV and Blu-Ray looks amazing. Don't let the worry stop you from getting them, haha...I don't think i'll ever buy a regular DVD ever againRoland123_basic

which can you recommend that look particularly amazing? i have casino royale, that is it.

apocalypto, PLANET EARTH, and DISCOVERY ATLAS look very nice. also the pirates of the carribean look very nice too.