How does 1080i content look on the Sony BDP-S350?

[ugafan1974]

I have this player, but have not watched a 1080i Blu-Ray yet. The HDGuru.com review says the following:

The first test is to determine the BDP-S350’s ability to properly deinterlace 1080i HD content. Most movies are digitally transferred from film at 1080p/24Hz; however, many music concerts and scripted TV series appearing on Blu-ray are recorded and mastered at 1080i/30 Hz. The “i” stands for interlaced and alternately outputs 540 odd and even lines of resolution every 1/60 of a second. When set to 1080p/60 a Blu-ray player should combine the odd and even lines into a complete 1080 line image every 1/60 of a second. The BDP-S350 can’t do this and simply doubles the number of scan lines with the same 540 lines of information, thereby displaying only 50% of the detail within the recording.

The article does state that most 2008 HDTV's properly deinterlace 1080i, so that is an option when, or if, I can get a new TV. I have a 720p JVC right now.

[crackinhedz]

1080i/720p is an excellent picture.

[ugafan1974]

Do you change the output on your player to 1080i?

[crackinhedz]

yes.

But if your TV is 720p native, that is what it should be set to.

[ugafan1974]

Thanks, I was checking to see what I should do if/when I pick up a 1080p TV.

[Kilian]

Correct me if I'm wrong, as I understand, 1080i/60 (more correct to refer to than "1080i/30 Hz"?) does not always mean the same thing or handled the same way.

It can be derived from 1080p/30 with the progressive field data marked in the metadata (the Blu-ray spec does not support 1080p/30 as such), or from true interlaced 1080i/60 fields, where the first and second fields are separate in time by 1/60th of a second when recorded and therefore should not be weaved.