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I keep wondering if

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DavidLD

In Reply to: RE: 480i to 1080p: closing the gap posted by Joe Murphy Jr on March 09, 2008 at 21:00:51

the upscaling technologies for standard DVDs will get so sophisticated to render even Blu Ray obsolete.

This is an alternate strategy for getting to the same place whereby the computer chip makes educated "guesses" what the data should be that isn't there on the standard disk and displays a picture based on those increasingly smarter guesses, versus having the missing data actually stored on and read from the disk. The guesses could get so good that almost no one would even notice they were still guesses.

As a math problem this is certainly not impossible, and places like NASA deal regularly with photographic data invariably of lower resolution than they would like. Remember the effort underway to clean up the low res photos Hubble created before its new camera "fixed" the mirror curvature problem.

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yes. nt - Duilawyer 08:08:27 03/10/08 (0)
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for the collector/enthusiast - Joe Murphy Jr 07:18:21 03/10/08 (0)
Equaling the quality of a native High Definition encode is something that's not possible, even with the best video tehnology; however, products like this will get you close. Not all DVDs in ones collection are rated "5-star" (or even "4-star", for that matter) and the catch with this technology is that the source must be high in quality to begin with. Those transfers are the ones that will be best at exploiting this technology and making the decision to upgrade to the Blu-ray version, at least for the video, a bit harder.

But if you don't yet own own the movie, it's a new release, it's one of your favorite movies or if you want lossless audio, the decision to buy the High Definition Blu-ray version should be rather easy.

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