Blu Ray Players with standard DVD's
Just when you think you understand what is going on, something else comes along and obsoletes it - just when I figured out how to program the VCR, I find they are obsolete:)! Quick background: S...
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docj wrote:
Upconverted DVDs may appear to look better on an HDTV but they don't actually gain resolution. Upconversion may produce a 1080 signal from a 480i DVD but you can't "create" resolution that wasn't there before. The upconverted signal interpolates the data between existing points to approximate what probably would have been there. However, the data is a guess not a real resolution improvement.
True, but an HD LCD TV is doing the same thing anyway. It's interpolating the standard DVD's 480i resolution video signal to fit full screen 720p or 1080 HD native screen resolution. Otherwise, the LCD screen would only use a portion of its native resolution to accurately display the 480i image, which would result in black bars on all sides of the screen.
