[mythtv-users] High end, state of the art Myth Frontend

[Jeff Siddall]

On 09/18/2013 03:18 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Siddall <news at siddall.name> wrote:
>> I dunno.  A broadcast HD channel here last year went from 1080i60 to 720p30
>> without me realizing the change was coming.  The very next hockey game I
>> watched I immediately noticed the picture looked crappy.  I assumed somehow
>> the game had inadvertently been transcoded by myth, but no, I discovered the
>> channel had changed format.
>>
>> 1080 has 2.25 times the resolution of 720 and it really makes a big
>> difference.  Count me as one who would prefer a well-deinterlaced 1080i game
>> to a 720p one.
>
> That's the wrong comparison to make.  Compare 1080i60 with 1080p60,
> with the 1080p signal compressed to use the same bandwidth as the
> 1080i signal.

Well.. if they had made that change instead of the 720p change I'm sure 
I would have had an opinion on that also :)

I can only imagine highly compressed 1080p would look horrible, which 
again makes me wonder why people are so quick to bash 1080i.

Jeff