Posted by AZ Nomad on 02/17/07 00:16

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:32:33 -0500, Joshua Zyber <joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote:


>"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.

Any current TVs out that that can't handle this simple function?

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