Here is an old thread from the AVS forum from a guy who is in exactly the
same position as me, has a Pioneer 503CMX display and wants to get a
Blu-Ray, is debating on whether or not to get an adapter like the HDFury.
He was looking at the HDFury 2 which had issues, but that was 3 years ago.
I'm considering the HD Fury 3.
http://72.9.159.100/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1085316
However o posts in this thread makes the following statement and I think it
makes sense:
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This panel has a native resolution of 1280x768. No matter what signal you
feed into the tv, the built-in scalar is going to convert it to this
resolution. If you feed it 1080p, it's going to have 768 lines. If you feed
it 720p, it's going to have 768 lines. There is not going to be a big
difference. 720p might even look better.
In terms of upconverting, if you play a dvd, to display on this panel, it
has to be upconverted somewhere to the native resolution of the screen. If
you use an upconverting player, it might do a good job upconverting it to
1080p but then the tv is going to have to downconvert it to fit on the 768
lines. If you feed the tv the 480p of the dvd then the tv will upconvert it
to the native resolution. Even if the upconverter in the blue ray player is
really good, I question whether the final result after an upconvert followed
by a downconvert will be better than the upconvert done by the tv itself.
For blue ray, you can set up the player to output any resolution. I tried
1080i and 720p and, I think, the 720p looks a little better so I set it to
that. Blue ray disks definitely look better than regular dvd's on the
display.
And the output of my cable box is 720p.
So I guess the bottom line is that I think that it makes sense to get a blue
ray player and hook it up with component cables to the 5002 and set the
player to output 720p.
I'm not going to get rid of a perfectly good display or spend several
hundred dollars so that I can feed it 1080p that it can't display. And even
if it could, a lot of experts will tell you that this additional resolution
is a small factor compared to the better color, contrast, black levels etc.
that the newer displays have.
What's wrong with this thinking?
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What do you guys think of his reasoning? Would hooking up a BluRay player
to the old plasma set with component cables defeat the purpose?
Veech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Zottl" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 07:42
Subject: Re: [H] HD Fury
Very interesting little device! I don't need one, but it seems like a
very
sound piece of engineering. If you end up getting it, let us know how it
is!
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Julian
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Veech <[email protected]> wrote:
Has anyone on the list ever used the HD Fury device?
http://www.hdfury.com/
I have an older Pioneer 50" plasma that works great but it was made just
prior to HDMI. I am thinking about getting the HDFury 3 because I want
to
get a Blu-Ray player.
Anyone have any opinions on this one?
