Does my Samsung LE32M86BD support 1080p?
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Hi I've been using a Sky+HD box at 1080i for a few months now and today bought a Blu Ray player (Toshiba BDX1100KB).
However it wouldn't let me choose the option of 1080p - it would only let me select 1080i.
So then I wondered if my TV even supported 1080p, so googled the model number and found a load of product info stating that the max resolution it supports is 720p.
But if I press the information button on my TV remote it clearly states "1920x1080i @60Hz", as does my Sky Box.
How can I get it to support the Blu Ray player at 1080p?
Thanks.
However it wouldn't let me choose the option of 1080p - it would only let me select 1080i.
So then I wondered if my TV even supported 1080p, so googled the model number and found a load of product info stating that the max resolution it supports is 720p.
But if I press the information button on my TV remote it clearly states "1920x1080i @60Hz", as does my Sky Box.
How can I get it to support the Blu Ray player at 1080p?
Thanks.
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From what I can gather it can do this with a 1080i source but cannot handle 1080p. I've found a user guide on the Samsung website for it and that does not mention 1080p anywhere.
So it looks like you may have to set the Blu-Ray player to 1080i mode if it has it.
Don't get confused between the number of pixels the screen has and support for 1080p. HD ready sets have less than 1080 pixels vertically (usually 768) but can usually still display 1080p pictures just at a slightly lower res than a 1920 x 1080 display. All HD Ready sets can work with 1080i.
The manual for your TV indicates 1366 x 768 (which is not 720P) and that it only supports progressive sources up to 720 (1280 x 720). 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p50 or 1080p60 is not supported.
Am I watching in 720p or 1080i?
Sorry if these questions are stupid haha
Your TV does not display either 720p or 1080i, those are signal descriptions not display resolutions - you have been mislead by people on here saying a TV is 720p when that is a nonsense statement, these people are either ignorant or lazy.
Your TV has a fixed resolution of 1366x768, whatever you input into it (HD at 720p or more likely 1080i or standard definition) it will still have a resolution of 1366x768 and will scale the signal to match the screen.
Is there an optimum input for a 1366x768 TV or not?
The player is unlikely to have the actual resolution of the TV as an option. The nearest is probably 720p which is another option to try. Ultimately you are not really going to be able to feed it an exact pixel match for the screen in the TV so it boils down to which of 720p or 1080i looks best.
1080i is almost always the best, but it's a customer setting, try 720P and see if YOU prefer it that way.
As already mentioned, it's a LOT, LOT better scaling down than scaling up.
I've got both boxes set to 1080i now, and I'm really happy with the picture quality.
Thanks so much for all your help guys!
Nope, you just feed it whatever. Any hdtv can accept either 1080i or 720p, that is standard, it can accept it, whether it displays the full resolution is another matter all together, as you know already your panel is 720p. Unless a display supports 1080p input, it won't, not that it would make a difference since your display isn't native 1080p pixels anyways. Anything you feed the tv is scaled by its processor. Even 720p, after all you have 768pixels vertical, not 720p;) If your processor does one better than the other it is just a minor difference. Too many factors, the sky box could be messing up 720p scaling it has to do as well, each pass potentially loses quality.
720p panels were a compromise for price in the past, luckily now we are moving past it and most decent screens now are really 1080p.
As stated earlier 1080i is likely to be the best feed if the TV can't take 1080p but it's always worth trying both and choosing the best.
It's that sort of description that confused Michael previously. 720p is not a panel resolution (though you can rarely get 720 vertical resolution panels).