Upconverting DVD Player...

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

OK, I've come to find out (thanks to help from ATOT among others) that my TV will scale incoming inputs to it's native resolution of 1080p. With that being said... is there any reason why I should care if a standard DVD player upconverts or not? If my TV will do it anyway? Whichever player I end up getting will be connected via HDMI.

 

[Kaido]

Yes, there is a quality difference. From Projector Central:

Upscaling is a science unto itself and nearly all projectors, flat screen LCDs, plasmas and projection TVs have the video processing necessary to upscale an image; however, the issue is quality, as not all video processors are created equal. The objective in scaling is to make something out of nothing. If the DVD is a 720 x 480 image and your television is any resolution higher than that, such as 852x480, 1024x576, 1280x720, 1365x768, 1400x788, or 1920x1080, then clearly there is a lot of image to create that doesn't exist on the DVD. The quality of your image will depend on the quality of the video scaler used to fill those holes.

I'm not familiar with any DVD players that upconvert to 1080p though (which doesn't mean there aren't any). The Oppo 971 is a hugely popular one:

http://www.amazon.com/OPPO-OPDV971H-Dig...-8373307-9279266?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
OK, I've come to find out (thanks to help from ATOT among others) that my TV will scale incoming inputs to it's native resolution of 1080p. With that being said... is there any reason why I should care if a standard DVD player upconverts or not? If my TV will do it anyway? Whichever player I end up getting will be connected via HDMI.

An upscaling DVD player (or a dedicated upscaler) will do a much better job of upscaling video than your TV ever will.

 

[TUKIN18S]

^X2

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: TUKIN18S
^X2

X3: Last Stand

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

OK great, that settles it I guess. Upconverting players will still be beneficial.

Next up... I can either get a player that upscales to 1080i (most players) or 1080p (Samsung 960). If TV's do a bad job upscaling, do they also do a bad job de-interlacing? Should I get a samsung and upconvert to 1080p from the source, or get any other upconverting player, send 1080i to the TV, and let it do the rest?