upscaling dvd players - worth it ?

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I have seen these newer dvd players that "upscale" the dvd to hd levels...

Are they worth it ?

When I was at best buy they had a boat load that were in the "return"
or "opened" box section for 1/2 price....

Are people returning these units because they notice no upscale/ is it
just hype ?

 

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:30:24 -0500, JH <JH@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>
> I have seen these newer dvd players that "upscale" the dvd to hd levels...
>
> Are they worth it ?
>
> When I was at best buy they had a boat load that were in the "return"
> or "opened" box section for 1/2 price....
>
> Are people returning these units because they notice no upscale/ is it
> just hype ?

You may notice an improvement if you have a digital connection (DVI/HDMI)
to a display matching the lines of one of 720p/768p/1024i. For my
1280x720 display, DVD through DVI @ 720p is sharper looking
with smoother color/contrast than component (limited to 480p). I can
freeze a DVD and flip between input sources to compare.

However, the recording industry limits non-digital connections to 480p, so
a non-digital connection (like component, S-video, etc.) or EDTV would NOT
benefit from anything beyond progressive. And I imagine most CRT TVs are
not sharp enough to see any difference regardless of connection.

So people that do not have a digital connection or good enough resolution
to benefit, think it is a waste of money and return it. For example, an
up converting DVD player would not do anything for a buyer of a 42" plasma
EDTV.

 

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When I purchased my 27" LCD, I also purchased an "inexpensive"
progessive scan DVD player. When I purchased my LG OTA tuner with a
DVD player built in. I didn't need 2 dvd's hooked up to the same tv,
when I'd only use the one that was DVI, so I took the stand-alone DVD
player back.

Anyway, that's why I took the one back that I had.
Russ


"JH" <JH@nospam.net> wrote in message
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:
: I have seen these newer dvd players that "upscale" the dvd to hd
levels...
:
: Are they worth it ?
:
: When I was at best buy they had a boat load that were in the
"return"
: or "opened" box section for 1/2 price....
:
: Are people returning these units because they notice no upscale/ is
it
: just hype ?
:
:
:

 

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David Efflandt (efflandt@xnet.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> You may notice an improvement if you have a digital connection (DVI/HDMI)
> to a display matching the lines of one of 720p/768p/1024i. For my
> 1280x720 display, DVD through DVI @ 720p is sharper looking
> with smoother color/contrast than component (limited to 480p). I can
> freeze a DVD and flip between input sources to compare.
>
> However, the recording industry limits non-digital connections to 480p, so
> a non-digital connection (like component, S-video, etc.) or EDTV would NOT
> benefit from anything beyond progressive.

The quality gain from upconverting to 1080i over component video is quite
apparent with my analog direct-view set. I did an A/B comparison and it
was obvious which was 1080i and which was 480p (or worse, 480i).

I also have some HD that I down-sampled to DVD-Video standard resolution
(1080i down to 720x480i, enhanced for 16x9 TVs), and that looks OK when
played as is, but is much closer to the original HD when upscaled back to
1080i.

I use the MIT MDP-100 MyHD PCI card to do my scaling.

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