1080I Issues

[happydood]

Dunno if this is the right place for this question, so mods please move if necessary!

I'm having an issue with a couple of discs that are presented in 1080i and it's not the usual motion judder/combing business I read about on the regular.

First things first: the discs are the Criterion Safety Last and the Australian Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell.

I'm having a major contrast problem. So much so that while detail is good, everything is much lighter- to the tune of blacks being grey, right down to the bars on either side of Safety Last. Both discs are mostly well-reviewed with no mention of this problem.

Is this a 1080i issue, a display issue, an hdmi handshake issue or a player issue? Thanks for your help!

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by happydood

Dunno if this is the right place for this question, so mods please move if necessary!

I'm having an issue with a couple of discs that are presented in 1080i and it's not the usual motion judder/combing business I read about on the regular.

First things first: the discs are the Criterion Safety Last and the Australian Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell.

I'm having a major contrast problem. So much so that while detail is good, everything is much lighter- to the tune of blacks being grey, right down to the bars on either side of Safety Last. Both discs are mostly well-reviewed with no mention of this problem.

Is this a 1080i issue, a display issue, an hdmi handshake issue or a player issue? Thanks for your help!

It seems like you need a proper video calibration. Have you ever performed a calibration on your TV?

[happydood]

Originally Posted by slimdude

It seems like you need a proper video calibration. Have you ever performed a calibration on your TV?

Thanks for responding. Yeah, I've had the tv calibrated professionally. I've been getting the most out of it for going on 9 years(!)- for the record its a 42 inch Toshiba LCD.

There's a hiccup-y thing that happens when a dvd goes in initially before it starts playing where the screen is the full black I normally get with blu-rays before jumping to the normal contrast of dvd's. This 1080i issue is like that in that in that it jumps to that contrast, but retains the full 1080i clarity. It's weird but never noticed it before acquiring these two discs in the last year. I was putting it down to how the tv processes the signal.

Honestly, I've been waiting for this thing to die, so I can upgrade, but I gotta exhaust all possibilities to satisfy the wife- who of course could care less about Safety Last or Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell!

[omenboy]

I think there is a good chance that it could be the player - I could not play 1080i blu rays at all until I got an all region Oppo 103, and now I have no problem.

For the record, I have had a Sony Bravia XBR-Series KDL-46XBR5 since 2010, and it still works perfectly so there is really no excuse to replace it. The Oppo played 1080i discs perfectly on that tv. For bigger screen viewing I got a projector and turned my second bedroom into a home theater setup (and that is where the Oppo now lives and still has no problem playing the 1080i discs).