![]() One falls after the other, and you get to explore some of the land while doing so.īut not all of it. You hunt down and defeat 16 giant beasts. Shadow of the Colossus is a simple game on the surface. Of course, there’s always the question of what your TV does with 480i.There's quite a lot hidden around the world of Shadow of the Colossus. On a TV that will actually show 480p or 480i (ie good CRT), the progressive image will look more solid. It can try to reconstruct 60p by vertical interpolation (but that will just look smoother than line doubling) or, god help you, it could try to reconstruct 30p, which will look like crap.įor 30p source, it’s possible that the TV can reconstruct from 60i (of course adding some slight latency), but I don’t know if TV’s will do that in practice.įrom a practical standpoint, a still image 480p and 480i aren’t going to look that different. If it’s 60p and you output 60i, you’ve thrown away half the data and there’s nothing the TV can do to make that up. That this is even an issue is just one of the biggest tech cock-ups of the whole DVD era.įor video games you are starting with something that is likely 60p or 30p. However, it’s hard to find a device that handles all sources well. Given that DVD field flagging has been done so poorly, it’s generally a matter of looking at the fields, making the best guess at the cadence, and doing the reconstruction. Unfortunately, it’s more complex than that.įor movies on DVD it’s an issue of doing IVTC to take your (usually) 3-2 pulled-down 60i (from 24p film source) video and reconstructing 24p. One site, arguing against buying progressive scan DVD players, said that almost nothing actually outputs progressive, they just have built in scalers, and you may as well let the TV do the legwork and get the cheaper player. Looking it up, the consensus seems to be that there is no way of telling wether your output device or TV has the better scaler without eyeballing it yourself. It’s usually better to let the source send its own progressive scan image out instead of the TV unless you have a really high-end set with a fantastic scaler. But that doesn’t mean much for video games as its better to let the PS2 send out a progressive picture itself. ![]() The manual saying the TV can deinterlace signals on the 480i input just means that it uses its own scaler for interlaced sources. ![]() I haven’t eyeballed anything yet, but because my TV is too dumb to sensibly autodetect, testing each one would require unplugging and replugging inputs and so on, and I can’t be bothered if it’s all the TV equivalent of buying gold-tipped speaker cable and all that nonsense. However, the screen flashes “progressive” momentarily when that channel is switched on. If I plug into the 480p inputs, no such option appears. My current belief is the TV has a built-in deinterlacer to accomplish this. ![]() However, if something is plugged into th 480i inputs, an extra option appears in the on-screen menu, asking me if I want to have this input Interlaced or Progressive. There are various other non component inputs (s-video 480i, DVI 1080i, coax lol). It has 1 set of component inputs specifically for 480i and 1 set of component inputs which can take 480p or 1080i. You set’s component inputs are seperated between 480p and 480i? Is the 480p input just 480p or does it also include 720p and 1080i? ![]()
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