What's with various companies enhanced Progressive scan?

Recently I was looking at two Sony dvd players that had identical features with the exception that the more expensive model had something called Procision Cinema Progressive scan. Isn't progressive scan capped off at 480 lines of resolution? Is this a marketing job on Sony's part or is there an actual difference?

 

Maybe one of them was an upscaling player that uses DVI output to upconvert the 480i video on the dvd to either 720p or 1080i. DVD is, as you stated, rated at 480 interlaced lines of resolution, but some of the newer players can upconvert it to 720p or 1080i. Many of the companies are using fancy marketing names for this.

 

All marketing B.S. As Greg T mentions, there are some players that upsample the native 480i image to 720p or 1080i, but those are rare right now.

All you need to know about progressive scan.....

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-...ype=&manufacturer=0&maxprice=0&deInt=0&mpeg=0


Give it a second or two to completely load.

Any questions, hit me back here!

 

What Gregt and SamS mention is correct. All the dvd players that have a dvi output that I know of do upscale to 720p and 1080i. Read the link that SamS provides - not all progressive dvd players are created equal. Also pay attention to the actual mpeg decoders - many of them are crap.

 

Other than Sansui, who makes a 1080i dvi output?

 

Every player with a dvi output that I know can do 1080i (samsung, v, denon, marantz, etc).

 

And, may I add, 720p!