Here's a new one: Blue Ray player WON'T output 1080i anymore

[[AK]Clay]

When I hook up my BlueRay player to my new surround sound amp via HDMI, the option to output any interlaced video is now greyed out as an option in the SetUp menu of the BlueRay player. Has anyone encountered this before? The issue is my TV's max resolution is 1080i.

TV: Sony. Max resolution = 1080i
BlueRay Player: Magnavox NB500MS9
Amp: Onyko HT-S9100THX

[[AK]Clay]

If you own an "HD" TV you bought more than two years ago - pay attention to this, because I think I just figured this out - and it gets pretty interesting. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The dirty secret is most older LCD "HD" TV's, that max out at 1080i, aren't actually 1080. They'll take a 1080i signal and display it, but they downconvert that signal to 768 for the display. Most older LCD "HD" TVs only go up to 768. In my case, for a 16:9 TV, that should be 1920X1080, which is a bit over 2 million pixels. My 16:9 TV only has around 1.1million.

So while I'm still not entirely sure why my Amp is not allowing my BlueRay player to use 1080i (but DOES allow 1080p, which it then fails to properly downgrade to 1080i and send to the TV), the "downgrade" that I'm forced to do at the BlueRay to 720p apparently is a very minor downgrade. And if you own non-1080p TV, that probably holds true for you too, because you're screen is probably only a 768 as well.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...i-vs-720p.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/720p-vs-1080p-hdtv/

In my case, the issue appears to be a compatibility issue between a very old "HD" TV, a bottom end BlueRay player, and a modern Amp. Which is forcing me to run at 720p rather than 1080i. If I can figure out how to get 1080i to start working again on my B-Ray, I probably will, but until then - the reality is 720p isn't a big deal.