Dvd refresher course required.

mungk

mungk

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I tried a search but couldn't find an exact answer to my question. Anyhow, I was wondering, why commercial dvd movies look ok on regular tube tvs as well as lcd, plasma screens?

I was always under the impression that progressive footage viewed on interlaced tvs would look jagged.
 
Any fairly recent DVD players convert progressive DVDs to interlaced if they're hooked up to a standard television.
 
The 'progressive' look has more to do with the method by which the moving image was originally captured, than with the method by which it's played back.

Somebody correct me, if I'm wrong, there.
 
Sad Max, I believe you're right, as any standard CRT-based TV displays in interlaced mode.
 
ANY DVD player will convert progressive to interlaced.

All Hollywood movies are laid to disc as 24p. If you're watching on a standard TV, the DVD player is doing an on-the-fly conversion. That's as true of players sold in 1998 as it is of players sold today.
 
I see thanks for the clarification.

So why does compressor add interlacing when I use the DVD best settings, if the dvd player will automatically do that for me?

Am I using the wrong setting?
 
Yes trying to make a 24p dvd. Should i be using DVD HD settings even though my footage is 4:3?
 
Well, the basic thing you want to do is export an MPEG-2, 23.976p, 720x480, .9 pixel aspect ratio. How to do that in Compressor, I don't know.
 
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