LCD/Plasma/CRT/DLP - questions

[Lyris]

Yeah, I just use my eyes most of the time and get a picture I'm happy with. But I don't think that'd be possible for really precise colour adjustments, they'd either be "wrong" or "bang-on".

[sj33]

This is something I was thinking about the other day - doesn't this all assume that game developers are using screens with everything set up correctly too? We just don't know :P

[andrewfee]

You would assume that at least the artists at a good developer would have calibrated displays, though it's fairly obvious in some games that not all developers do.

[Lyris]

The fact that Rayman Raving Rabbids on the US Wii is supposed to have an 480p and 16:9 Options menu that the developers FORGOT to make accessible, makes me wonder how much of a damn some of them care about the video presentation.

[Flompy]

Does anybody know if the wlt68 will accept 1080p @ 24fps via HDMI?

[Lyris]

If it does, I'll be shocked.

[EvilBoris]

It wouldn't surprise me if it did, it takes it over component , so why not HDMI?

[Lyris]

Whoah, it accepts 1080p/24? And not just 1080p/50 and 1080p/60?

[EvilBoris]

I was just talking about the 50/60, does setting anything to 24 actually make any difference though as it comes out at 60 anyway?

[Lyris]

1080p/24 would let you get totally judder-free film playback from HD DVD and BD. Assuming the signal was kept at 24fps from leaving the player to reaching your eyes and not converted to anything else inbetween, that is.

[EvilBoris]

But don't the frame rates have to be multiples of the refresh rate?

[Lyris]

On a TV they do yeah, to avoid tearing. But since LCDs don't have visible flicker (not currently anyway), having the panel update at 24fps would be fine.

What I'm saying is that few or no LCD TVs right now support that.

[EvilBoris]

I see, I was under the impression that although the format is stored at 1080/24 that the players would just upconvert it to 50/60 regardless. Do the players actually have to option to output at 24FPS?

[Lyris]

You're right, the current players take the 24p from the disc and use 3-2 Pulldown to get it to 60fps so that today's HDTVs can show it. I think the Sony Blu-ray player allows for true 24p output.

[EvilBoris]

Well there we have it, technofact of the day