WISN announces mid October HDTV

[neomaxi]

Mine is the Sony KP-57WS500.
It says right in the instruction booklet.
"This projection TV is not capable of displaying a native 720p format signal.  When a 720p format signal is received, it is converted into a 480p format signal"

Do you guys think I should take it back. I bought it from Best buy on Tuesday.  I just don't want channels to start broadcasting in 720p and me being able to see only 480p.
Any suggestions?  Should I take this back???

Thanks!!

[Gregg Lengling]

I'd take it back, I wouldn't buy anything that can't support the approx. 15 different ATSC 8VSB standards.  I was very vehement when I bought mine to make sure it would do whatever was possible.  Think about it, if it was a 200 dollar tv fine but you spent a lot of money on it and then they should expect you to not be able to view a 720i, but instead shift it down to 480p.  I can tell you there is a lot of difference.  Just watch channel 58 or HDNET and they watch a DVD (which is 480p) and you'll notice a big diff.



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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net

[borghe]

Mits integrated tuners will only convert 480i to 480p. Everything else will get converted to 1080i. This is actually how most tuners work. Most TVs won't accept anything besides 480i, 480p, 1080i, and if they do accept anything else, it will be 720p which is only available on a few sets. It's usually not up to the monitor to support all 18 ATSC standards. It's just a display device. It's the tuner that receives the ATSC signal that has to know what to do with all of the formats. 1080i seems to be the standard format to upconvert to.