Do they sell PS3's?

Playstations aren't Sony UK products, and aren't available from Sony UK.

hi, done a quick search but cant find an answer to this.

I am currently plugged into my TV using the composite HD cable, i want to use either the standard AV cable or a VGA output cable that i have but when i connect them to the TV i dont get a picture (as i guess it is still set to HD mode)

How can i change it over please?

Thanks in advance

does the picture turn blue when you try the vga or av?

The key point here is that the odd and even fields of an interlaced 'frame' are not shown at the same time, either on a CRT or on a flat TV.

As you say flat TVs have to deinterlace, but they cannot create detail where none previously existed. A deinterlacer cannot simply merge the odd and even fields to make a complete frame because the fields are snapshots from different periods in time. If it did, when anything moved it would look terrible. Instead a deinterlacers use information from one field only and line double/upscale that one field. Hence the resolution is 1080 lines on stationary objects, but 540 lines on moving objects. As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd!

I would say that BOTH do just that, an LCD/Plasma by deinterlacing and displaying them as a single frame, and a CRT by displaying them following each other, a single line apart, where persistance of vision makes them appear as a single frame.


I think the point is that the deinterlacers DO merge the fields, and process them as well - which is why they are poorer on fast moving action than progressive signals. A CRT is really no different either.

Actually that's what good deinterlacers often do (when the source was progressive e.g. a 24 fps film), DVD players are often better at this than TVs especially if the DVD is correctly labelled as progressive. So for a film there is no good reason why 1080i cannot be just as good as 1080p, it depends on the TV's deinterlacing.