Posted by Andrew Rossmann on 12/15/05 22:56

[This followup was posted to rec.video.dvd.players and a copy was sent
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In article <dnctkt$e84$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>, jos.adriani@home.nl
says...
> Just bought the LG DV9800H dvd-player with HDMI-out. Even on the highest
> resolution (1080i) the picture on my (rather expensive) Philips 32PF9830
> lcd-tv is no better then with an analog RGB connexion. Even the
> starting-screen with the "LG" logo looks blurry. Playing ""Apocalyps Now",
> redox version, the (dutch) subtitles look awfull. Is this because it is a
> rather cheap player or doesn't it get any better, even with an expensive
> player? (connexion is a 2m (Thomson) HDMI-cable, bought for ? 45,-). Please
> respond!

DVD's are 720x480NTSC/720x576PAL. Upscaling means it has to
interpolate and create extra pixels based on nearby pixels.

Also, the native resolution of your TV is 1366x768. If you upconvert
480 to 1080, the TV then DOWNCONVERTS it to 768 for display. When
downconverting, it merges pixels together. So now you have fake pixels
being merged with inerpolated pixels and mixed up with original pixels.
The result is a major mess.

You could try using 720p instead of 1080i to see if it improves.
Otherwise, stick with the standard 480i or 480p. The upscaling on many
DVD players is not that great. You can only get so much blood from a
stone.

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