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ManyTVs don't upscale as well as a decent DVD player

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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Oppo DV-981HD Universal SACD/DVD-A Players posted by David Aiken on June 18, 2007 at 23:54:56

I have a Sony SXRD, and it doesn't do nearly as good of a job upscaling as the Oppo. It does deinterlace very well, but not upscaling. Most people I have talked to have said that they prefered their DVD player to do the upscaling than their TV. While it isn't mandatory, a decent upscaling player DOES help give a better picture. It seems to be an area that manufacturer's skimp on(?).
Jack

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RE: ManyTVs don't upscale as well as a decent DVD player - David Aiken 21:08:15 06/19/07 (0)
I've got a Denon 2910 with the Faroudja chip for de-interlacing, and a Loewe LCD TV with 1366 x 768 resolution. I use HDMI connections which means that I have to take a progressive signal from the player. I leave all upscaling to the TV because that works slightly better than having the player rescale to 720p or 1080i and then having the TV rescale that to 768.

There's so many variables in this area and it drove me crazy when I first got the LCD screen and started asking which was the best way to go. A lot of the questions I was asking didn't seem to get discussed much and got conflicting answers when I could find any. After some months I started to feel I has some kind of understanding on the issues. If I replaced my TV with a 1080 screen of some flavour, I'd start doing the comparisons on scaling once again because it's possible that the 2910 might do a better job if I used it to scale to the native resolution of the display, something it can't do with a 1366 x 768 display.

I don't think there's a single answer that will fit every case, but we all start out looking for one of those sorts of answers and then get annoyed when we find there isn't one and we're going to have to make our own comparisons and then make up our own minds :-(

David Aiken

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