Originally posted by RichG
Whats progressive scan anyway? I mean I hear about it a lot but I don\'t actually know what it is. 
If you have a digital TV, or even better hdtv, you will get the benefits of progressive scan dvd player (hence, even games). Standard tv scan the pictures in half the even lines and half the odds lines at 60 times per second. To be more accurate, 30 times on the even scan lines, and 30 times on the odd scan lines. The half scan lines are called interlaced, producing jaggies images and bad motion. If you look at any standard tv, you will notice lots of scan lines appears, especially if there are lots of action going on.
Progressive scan, on the other hands, draw the image at 60 times progressively. Meaning, it will scan all the lines simutanuously. In the way, you will see crisp picture, no scan lines appear in fast motion. You will get a much better picture quality. That\'s a big benefit for video games because nearly all of the games run at 60hz (60 frames per second).
DVD movies, runs at 24 frames per second but it will scans in interlaced mode without progressive scan. progressive scan will scan the 24fps up to 60fps. And in that way, some picture will be scan twice while other will scan three times to get a total 60fps. Also known as 3:2 pulldown.
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