Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater 3:2 Reverse Pulldown & HTPC

I've read that this is good for watching DVD's, and that the Sony A2000 series does not do it. However, I've also read that some DVD players will do this for you. Which would lead me to believe that if I do HTPC and use it as the DVD player the computer can take care of this. Assuming this is the case, are there only certain DVD players, video cards, or what that would support this. I don't mind getting the TV without it if I know I have another component that can handle this for me anyway. I don't really want to buy another separate DVD player if I am looking at HTPC after Vista comes out anyway. The HTPC should handle upconversion and anything else related to DVD's I would assume.

Is it just me, or does "reverse pulldown" sound like a wrestling move?




(sorry for the derail so early in the thread)

... and 3:2 Reverse Pulldown sounds like something that would take hours to choreograph and many hours of practice...

I thought it was something that I should be including in my workout routine???

Let's prey that a serious reply is in the works somewhere.

J

I would think that it would be a pretty basic feature to do 3:2 pulldown (progressive scan for you wrestling folks )on a HTPC. I have heard that the video coming from a decent HTPC is superior to even the best stand alone DVD players, so again, I would assume that it is there in most HTPC components. I also wonder if it would be possible to do something like 4:4:4 Signal Processing ("upconverstion" to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p).

I keep thinking that I need to jump into HTPC as well, but I just keep finding other things to spend $1500+ on.

Sorry, I had posted a serious response before drifting off topic but looks like the serious post never made it to the server. From what I can see, all PC-based HTPC packages seem to implement the 3:2 reverse pulldown (ie 24 fps film support) but there was at least one recent Mac-based offering which did not.

Having said that, I believe pretty much every upconverting DVD player offers this as well, even the cheap ones.

Also, the point about A2000 not supporting 3:2 reverse pulldown only seems to apply when the input is at 1080i. Strictly speaking the CineMotion option is disabled when the input is 1080i but there doesn't seem to be any consensus about whether the 3:2 reverse pulldown is actually operating or not. Maybe the engine doesn't have enough memory to buffer incoming frames at 1080 resolution ?

I'm not sure what the native resolution of the A2000 is, ie whether it displays at 1080i or 1080p, so not sure how big a problem this is. Certainly if you feed 480 or 720 line content into the TV and let it upconvert there will be no problem, and if your future player can feed 1080p there will be no problem (assuming the A2000 can accept 1080p, can it ?), so there are only a couple of configurations where this would be an issue.

And it's not "sexual harrassment" it's "payin' a lady a compliment" , right?

LOL, I'm gonna tuck that away in the ol' brainpan. I'm sure I'll be able to use it later in the appropriate context.