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In Reply to: RE: anybody familiar with a Panasonic 42GT25 plasma TV? posted by centaurus3200 on July 11, 2011 at 13:49:19
Somewhere not too far down in this Video forum somebody posted a link to AVS a while ago showing all the really good Kuro tech was NOT being used in any Panny display to date. I thought it was Joe... Panny used some of the cheaper stuff, but none of the expensive chemical processes that really give the last Kuros the big edge. Kuro Elites still sell for big bucks here.To join the "choir": I find SD looks atrocious on my Kuro*. This is why people often use external scalers. Modern BDPs have pretty good scalers, way better than what's built into displays, so not as big an issue for discs. As to why the SD looks crappy, I'm sure you can imagine that a source image that has the exact same resolution as the display device is going to map 1:1 and look good. The other part of that is blowing up an image of a given number of pixels to fill a much larger number of pixels (the HD display)...it's going to look blocky and smeary etc. without some decent intelligent processing.
* I mean when using the display's built-in scaling, but you probably understood that...
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for scaling SD - still nothing beats an older faroudja NRS (including DVP-1000 and DVP-1010)?
i know of a guy who got nice results from running his CLD-97 into his onkyo HD receiver - which has a faroudja DCDi chip into his 50" panny VT plasma.
Robby
Yes, some AVRs have excellent scaling abilities too. Sorry, forgot to mention that because I never use mine for anything "important" because it's not that great (my main disc player scales DVD just fine). Possibly a feature to look for when selecting an AVR. To get decent results the source must put out 480i and some may not.
Edits: 07/12/11
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