[mythtv-users] Done with ATI

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 18:24:59 Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On 20/08/2009, at 12:52 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >>>> I've been outputting nothing but a 1080p signal to my TV for the 
> >>>> past 4+ years or so, without using a deinterlacer. MythTV handles 
> >>>> the scaling of everything that needs it just fine, the TV handles 
> >>>> the deinterlacing, and everything looks quite good. (And the bulk of 
> >>>> my content is 1080i mpeg2.)
> >>>
> >>> If the TV receives a 1080p signal, it won't know to deinterlace.
> >>
> >> Precisely, plus a scaled image? No way the TV could do any 
> >> deinterlacing. It wouldn't even know the signal was interlaced in the 
> >> first place.
> > 
> > I have no interlaced content other than 1080i, so there's nothing scaled 
> > that needs to be deinterlaced anyway. And honest to $deity, I run no 
> > deinterlacer on the mythtv side, and the output of all my 1080i stuff is 
> > flawless. Honest. And I *know* what it looks like when stuff does need 
> > to be deinterlaced -- my prior 1080i set most definitely required a 
> > deint filter or things looked horrid. So I dunno what to tell you, but 
> > it does indeed work perfectly fine to output 1080p with no deinterlacer 
> > here.
> 
> Interesting. Maybe the TV looks for combs. Which TV?

Westinghouse LVM-37w1. I believe its been replaced at least once by a
newer model, its a 4+ year old set now.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com