Running high def from a dvd player?

[imported_Krypto]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
was the picture quality better?

Yes, I did notice a difference in clearity. Sharper image also, not by much but noticeable.

Which is better 480p or 960i?

By RCA cable i mean a cable that has RCA plugs, is that right?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Krypto

By RCA cable i mean a cable that has RCA plugs, is that right?

The conductor matters, for component video it's supposed to be 75 ohm coax.

Viper GTS

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Upconverting doesn't really do anything.

Chances are, if you have a HDTV tv, it is already doing conversion from whatever source to display at its native resolution, which can be 1080i or 720p, or some 1080p. But the upconversion is not gonna turn some thing lower fidelity to higher fidelity again.

Think of it as this analogy. When you convert a wav file to mp3 and convert it back to wav, the final wav file will be as good of a quality as the mp3. Upconverison does not magically fill in all the missing information in the source materal, it merely pads it so it looks "smoother". When a movie is encoded at mpeg2 on the dvd at 480p, this is as good as you can get, unless you buy the HD dvd version of the movie that studios will release in the future.

actually, using a purely digital signal to a digital display (and doing the conversion in the digital domain with the normally "better than the TV" scaler found in decent DVD players can result in superior video quality.