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Posted by Gaz on 10/21/28 11:36
Justin Cole wrote:
> "DH" <nowhere@nohow.com> wrote in message
> news:qmsuf.19184$iz3.4729@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> Morning all,
>> It is working quite nicely with my Sky box (SCART) and trusty old Pioneer
>> 656a DVD player (3x phono component), but it doesn't give as good a
>> picture as the demo in the shop. I suspect they are using an upscaling
>> (upsampling) DVD player - the LG brand of course via HDMI.
>>
>> Question : In your mulitudinous experiences, is it a good bet to buy one
>> of these upsampling players and use HDMI, or let the TV do the upsampling
>> job via component phonos from the 656a ?
>
> I suspect the picture improvement is from the digital connection alone.
> With the component connection the input signal has to be sampled
> (digitized)
> for the display then to scale etc. to display... However, it's also down
> to
> who's got the best upsampling algorithm...
>
> Justin.
My modded xbox (xbmc) seems to do a very good job of playing dvds on my
50inch hd tv at both 720p and 1080i, through a component connection.
The picture quality on regular DVDs is superb. Currently using my xbox 360
(xbox isnt powerful enough to play genuine hd files) to stream Terminator 2
HD from a media centre PC upstairs. Looks very good, no dropped frames, very
clear picture, does show up weaknesses in the special effects though, which
are missed at a lower res....
Gaz
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