Progressive DVD-R + CRAP Progressive Player = No diffrence?

[Trenton_Net]

Hey guys,

I recently got an HDTV. Currently I author my disks so that the source is stored progressively (Progressive 23fps Pulldown, or 29fps progressive). I was tempted to spend money on a $400 CN player, but I was thinking. Those players really make the picture quality better by deinterlacing right? But if my movies are already progressive, doesn't that mean, even a really cheap and crappy progressive DVD player will still work just as well, since all that player needs to do is shoot out the original picture without interlacing it?

I would assume ONLY if the disk was authored interlaced internaly, then would a crappy DVD player show problems since deinterlacing would be its weak point.

Is this the case?

[rishardc]

Read through this
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html

Generally the thing about higher end progressive scan players isn't necessarilly that it gives you a better overall picture, its that it doesn't have the annoying errors that a cheaper progressive scan player has. This site goes through problems you might see on a cheaper progressive scan player.

[Trenton_Net]

Ah, I was sure someone would mention this

But the key about this case is that all the video is edited and processed before authoring the DVD. This means you can do de-interlacing before hand removing the task of the DVD player to do it. This means there is less changes of a glitch to occure. In addition, since you mastered the video yourself, things like flags and such should be pretty consistant. After all, if your movie is true progressive, and you set it as such in Tmgpenc, it should give you a simple uniform video output with no odd variations and glitchs which might throw a DVD Player off.