Looking to Cut the Cord on Paid Television
I have finally come to the realization that I am paying way too much money for what I am getting from my DirectTV account, both at home and in the motor home. I realize that Hulu and other Internet st...
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Redsky wrote:
We use the $8 Netflix streaming plan and stream in low def (same as normal pre-HD broadcase) and let the Blu-Ray DVD player upscale it for our 52" LCD screen and it works perfectly.
With all due respect, upscaling does not restore definition to a TV picture. An SD picture has less digital information than an HD picture. An upscaling Blu-ray player can provide an acceptable picture on a large screen HDTV but it does not restore the missing resolution; that is a physical impossibility. What the Blu-ray does is called interpolation which is another way of saying that it makes an educated "guess" as to what the missing pixels would be. But that's not the same as actually having them. If the picture is acceptable to you that's fine, but some people like actually having an HD picture.
