Frankly, I'm pretty surprised to see that the Sony 46XBR2 (which is overpriced to begin with) fails the 3:2 inverse telecine test, given that its lesser siblings in the S2000 series (e.g. the 46S2000) managed to pass. I have a Sharp 46D62U on order, so I hope Sharp got the 3:2 problem corrected in the new-generation panels. Perhaps one of the HD freaks at AVSForum who have bought Sharp 62U's will be able to perform the same test.
Chris: Couldn't agree more regarding HD down-rezzing by distributors. DirecTV is particularly bad in this regard. Hell, the things they do to SD are nearly criminal -- at times it's painful to watch 'The Daily Show'. I'm looking forward to better HD content at full >19Mbps bitrates, but I'm not budging on an HD-capable DVD player until the BluRay/HDDVD war is a little farther along, even if HD-DVD looks like the victor at the moment.
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AlphaGeek @ Oct 16th 2006 3:09PM
Gary Merson kicks ass.
Frankly, I'm pretty surprised to see that the Sony 46XBR2 (which is overpriced to begin with) fails the 3:2 inverse telecine test, given that its lesser siblings in the S2000 series (e.g. the 46S2000) managed to pass. I have a Sharp 46D62U on order, so I hope Sharp got the 3:2 problem corrected in the new-generation panels. Perhaps one of the HD freaks at AVSForum who have bought Sharp 62U's will be able to perform the same test.
Chris: Couldn't agree more regarding HD down-rezzing by distributors. DirecTV is particularly bad in this regard. Hell, the things they do to SD are nearly criminal -- at times it's painful to watch 'The Daily Show'. I'm looking forward to better HD content at full >19Mbps bitrates, but I'm not budging on an HD-capable DVD player until the BluRay/HDDVD war is a little farther along, even if HD-DVD looks like the victor at the moment.