Posted by Mark Remfrey on 12/22/05 04:53

"Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@mind-NOSPAM-spring.com> wrote in message
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> "The Other Guy" <tog@null.void> wrote in message
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>> Is the R1 progressive scan? I would prefer progressive scan over the PAL
>> disks...
>
> All DVD video is stored in interlaced format. There is no such thing as a
> "progressive" DVD. Deinterlacing for progressive scan playback is a
> function of the DVD player or the TV.


Not quite true.... DVD MPEG-2 encoding allows for both interlaced or
progressive streams, however most DVD's don't use progressive as almost all
players don't have progressive stream handling capability.

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Regards,
Mark Remfrey

"Two wrongs don't make a right.... it usually takes three or more!"

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