Posted by Joshua Zyber on 02/16/07 23:32

"AZ Nomad" <aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote in message
news:slrnetbffd.f98.aznomad.2@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...
>>Upscaling does not add real picture detail. It just fills in the empty
>>spaces between pixels with new pixels created by borrowing pieces of
>>those found in the source. This has advantages over not upscaling, but
>>you can't turn a Standard Definition source into true HD.
>
> Not only that, but upscaling is done automatically in every current
> HDTV TV.
> Doing it in the DVD player instead of the TV offers no improvement at
> all.

That depends on the quality of the scaling chips in each component. Many
TVs have lousy cut-rate scaling chips, in which case a DVD player may do
a better job.

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