Posted by MassiveProng on 02/17/07 01:18

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:21:33 GMT, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> Gave us:

>On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:47:30 -0500, Joshua Zyber <joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
>>news:12ta3a9ehl79t24@corp.supernews.com...
>>> I'm just curious how much better the Oppo's scaling chip is compared
>>> to
>>> the one in my TV. So far, I can see small differences, but nothing
>>> that's
>>> as jaw-dropping as comparing a 480i to 720p or 1080i over cable.
>
>>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.
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>
>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.

Not if one sets one's array handler to 1 to 1, which my set allows.

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