Progressive Scan DVD

Hoop · February 2006

What is the easiest way to tell if a DVD play is progressive scan? I have a Sony that is a few years old (DVP-NS400D I believe) and I'm not sure if it is or not. It has component outputs (too old for HDMI). I don't think that it is but I could be wrong and I don't know how to tell.

thehaens@cox.net · February 2006

Go into your menu on the DVD player, (not the DVD you are watching), and go to Audio/Video or just video, and check if there is an option to input an interlaced/progressive scan.

or

Do a search on your player http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Sony_DVP_NS400D and you will find that yours is not progressive......

Scott

Willow · February 2006

thehaens@cox.ne wrote:

Go into your menu on the DVD player, (not the DVD you are watching), and go to Audio/Video or just video, and check if there is an option to input an interlaced/progressive scan.

or

Do a search on your player http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Sony_DVP_NS400D and you will find that yours is not progressive......

Scott

Or post here and wait for Scott to answer you

thehaens@cox.net · February 2006

Yeah, or post here and you can wait for me to answer.....

Sami · February 2006

Is your TV digital or analog? With a digital TV you do not need progressive scan player.

Willow · February 2006

Sami wrote:

Is your TV digital or analog? With a digital TV you do not need progressive scan player.

As true as this may be, he may have a better chip in the DVD player than in the TV. But this is not the case here.

Hoop · February 2006

I do not have a new TV yet, but I am planning on getting a Sony KDF-E55A20 which is a RP LCD TV. My understanding that this TV, though HD, is analog and not digital.

The only true digital displays are LCoS and, eh, can't remember the other one. Plasma?

Sami · February 2006

Hoop wrote:

I do not have a new TV yet, but I am planning on getting a Sony KDF-E55A20 which is a RP LCD TV. My understanding that this TV, though HD, is analog and not digital.

The only true digital displays are LCoS and, eh, can't remember the other one. Plasma?

All LCD's are digital, so are plasmas and DLP's etc. Analog sets are CRT.

MattN03 · March 2006

So what does the progressive scan feature actually do? I have a 36" Toshiba CRT that is around 3 years old. Can I use the progressive scan feature with this TV?