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Posted by Gareth Halfacree on 09/29/17 11:34
Keeper of the Purple Twilight wrote:
> On 2005-12-13 06:15:31 -0600, Gareth Halfacree <usenet@halfacree.co.uk>
> said:
>> What the DVD player will do is 'upscale' the picture to a higher
>> resolution before sending it to the TV. Almost without fail, this
>> will look *lower* quality than just sending the TV the footage as it
>> appears on the disc and allowing it to do the upscaling itself
>
> Why?
Why what? Why will it look lower quality? Because if, as the OP, you
have a 'cheap' DVD player connected to an 'expensive' TV the upscalers
in the TV will be correspondingly more 'expensive' and thus give you a
higher quality.
Of course, there is always the possibility that the 'expensive' TV was a
rebranded ripoff, in which case the DVD player will give you higher quality.
Either way, to expect a massive (or, in my experience, any) improvement
over standard RGB is to court disappointment. If you want a
high-definition picture on your high-definition TV, you will have to
wait for a high-definition playback format (HD-DVD or BR, depending on
which wins the battle).
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Gareth Halfacree
http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk
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