Posted by Justin Cole on 01/03/06 19:57

"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.

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