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RE: compared to what?

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Jazz Inmate

In Reply to: RE: compared to what? posted by David Aiken on January 20, 2008 at 22:39:49

The Tivo3 is essentially a fancy HD DVR that delivers standard and HD broadcasts. It doesn't do upscaling and I mostly use it to watch HD content at 720 or 1080i. So any standard def images via the Tivo3, the plasma is automatically stretching 4:3 to fit the 16:9 screen and this doesn't bother me enough to change the plasma's settings. For one thing, I risk a different luminescence on the sides of the screen over time if I insist on watching all 4:3 content in the middle of the screen. For another, it looks crappy anyway, so why try to put a silk cap on a pig.

The NTSC image from DVD is another matter, and I do use the upscaler in the PS3 for that.
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RE: compared to what? - David Aiken 13:13:24 01/21/08 (1)
If the Tivo signal passes through a receiver and the receiver has upscaling, you may get better results with it but I somehow doubt it.

David Aiken
- RE: compared to what? - Jazz Inmate 13:40:14 01/21/08 (0)
  Much of the content from the Tivo is already 1080i, so my intention is to pass it unprocessed through the preamp.
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  Edits: 01/21/08

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