Panasonic full hd 1080p only showing 1080i?

[rumpelstiltskin]

Just a quick query,just bought a Panasonic Viera full hd 1080p,600hz tv.When i turn the tv over to an Hd channel it comes up at the top left of the screen 1080i 50hz??Even watching hd channels from Freesat box through hdmi cable its just the same?Is this correct or should it show 1080p?Thanks.

[MacW]

It's correct, the channels are not broadcasted in 1080p

[PJ S]

As the 1st reply states, no broadcasts are transmitted in anything above 1080i.
Bar period dramas and suchlike, set the box to output at 720p as 1080i once deinterlaced, doesn't give full-fat 1080 resolution, but 810-820 vertical lines of resolution, which you'd be hard pressed to notice from typical viewing distances.

[Rick101]

I have a similar TV. Your source is not Progressive, it's interlaced.

Get a bluraay player and a few disks. It will pick that up as Progressive. The difference is noticeable in my opinion.

[headcase]

The 600Hz thing is a lie too, this is just some electrogimikery that they call 600Hz, you will always get the 50Hz marker or sometimes 60Hz on certain things but it will never show 600Hz

[PJ S]

The display is what's detected, not what the internals are doing, so of course you're not going to see it display 600Hz.
The 600Hz is generated through interpolation (best guess, effectively) as sub-fields.


"Crisp, Clear Moving Picture
600Hz Sub-field Drive
Panasonic uses its own unique image-analysis technology. This technology converts the motion in each scene into data, and each frame is virtually displayed in a shorter length of time, to create crisp images.

• When using Cinema mode"