Snarff

I was looking for a new dvd player, I asked 2 sales persons in diff stores and they both said if the player has progressive scan it has 3:2 as well, just wanted to confirm this before i buy a new player. Thanks for any info

NikePenguin

Progressive scan and 3:2 are the same thing. However, not all players do it equally well and some tv sets can do it themselves.

chipmac

Progressive scan and 3:2 pulldown are not the same thing although usually any device that converts from interlace to progressive will also do 3:2 pulldown.

Progressive is when you take two interlaced fields (odd lines and even lines ) and combine them into one complete video frame to be display at once (odd and even displayer at the same time).

3:2 pulldown (otherwise known as film/video mode) is the changing of the film frame rate at the source to match the video frame rate of our display. So if you have a DVD of a film source at 24 frames per second and your video display works at 60 fields per second then 3:2 pulldown is what makes the 24 divide into 60 without you noticing that there are dropped fields.

See this
link for a more thorough explaination.

In any case it does seem that all DVD players that convert to progressive output also have 3:2 pulldown but not all TVs that convert to progressive will have 3:2 pulldown.

NikePenguin

Thanks, Chip.