OK, so I've been looking into the chroma issue, with reference to the Panny players, and found the following on AVS Forum:

"Pixel Processing Gets Better
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A solution is provided in Panasonic HD/DVD players:
The Panasonic Hollywood Laboratories PHL Reference Chroma Processor studies and improves restoration, color correction, compression and digital conversion, then up-samples (4:2:0 to 4:2:2) the color information in decoded video signals. The unique PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus expresses the fine details and nuances of movie scenes by reproducing clearer color boundaries, providing all the qualities that a Blu-ray (and DVD) disc has to offer."

Looking at Panny's own documentation on the subject we read such things as:

"To get the best high definition images from a Blu-ray disc, you need a player that renders high-quality progressive images, expresses motion smoothly, and draws sharp diagonal lines. The Panasonic-unique P4HD technology processes more than 15 billion pixels per second, generating each pixel correctly according to information obtained from up to 60 surrounding pixels, and applies the optimum processing to every pixel in the video data on the disc. The result is images with exceptional resolution."

In other words the Panasonic players are interpolating the source data in a number of ways. If this is correct then I'm not interested. Interpolation at the same resolution as the source data leads to obfuscation of original information and a LOSS of image fidelity.

No thanks.

Mark




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