Wii Upconversion: How is the picture quality of the Wii when upconverted through this receiver?
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You can adjust the audio lip sync on this receiver. I had to do that for my Directv HD DVR. Syncs it up perfectly.
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It will upconvert the signal to HD but will not up-scale your video quality. There is a distinction between the two and obviously no reciever can enhance video quality per say.
1929264
I'd like to know this myself. That's one reason why I haven't purchased an upconverting dvd player. I don't want to waste money. Go here and ask the same question about the 970HD. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=682896
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The Pioneer VSX-919 does upconversion of analog to digital. The Sony DH800 does not. The benefit of upconversion is that you can connect analog equipment (non-HDMI, by definition) to the receiver, it will convert the signal to digital, and then you can use a single HDMI cable feed to your HD TV for all your equipment instead of the usual rat's nest of wiring. So you won't have as many cables to deal with and analog video content should look better on your TV (although lots of HD TVs do their own upconversion, so this aspect might not matter). The next model up the Sony line, the STR-DN1000, does upconversion, and gets very good reviews. Also note that the iPod connection on the front of the Pioneer is a standard USB port, so you can connect many non-Apple mp3 players, a thumb drive, or even a USB hard drive to this receiver (requires FAT32 formatting on drive) from which to play your music collection. That's a pretty cool feature.
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at what quality are your dvds from you hi8 conversion. is it possible to improve the quality using this device?
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Yes, this is through HDMI cable. I do not component cable. I noticed that certain movies, there is a restriction in upconversion. Otherwise, for most of the SD DVD, it upconverts much better than the Yamaha receiver (it also can do upconversion through TBC-time base correction).
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Update: I went ahead and bought the 720, and have not had any problems with lag on my Wii. I have the Wii component cable going into the 720, and a single HDMI cable sending all of my video to a projector. It looks and plays great.
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No quality improment. It just very much do the conversion so you can use hdmi port
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Yes, it does upscale old consoles, and with great results. I'm currently using one of these myself to upscale my NES, SNES, Genesis, and Dreamcast. The resulting picture quality still isn't as great as using an old tube tv, but it's a huge improvement. Currently playing Gaiares on the Genesis and the colors and sprites all look real good. I think some systems tend to look better through the upscaler than others, however, as my Gamecube still looks muddy as hell, but the dreamcast gives me some sharper picture quality. Overall, though, I think it's worth the money.
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I have had no problems with picture quality. I would suggest rechecking all of the connections, but I am sure you did that already. Sorry; I am the original electronic idiot!
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I tested this with the HDMI connection. The owners manual, available publicly on the Philips site, indicates that the choice of upscaling format is available only on an HDMI connection, so I did not bother trying with component video. It seems component video supports only 480i/480p, or 576p to a PAL TV. The manual also indicates support for HDMI connections to DVI devices that support HDCP; I don't have such a device so I have not verified this. I hope shortly to have a 1080p TV to verify its behavior there.Thanks for the question. Although I saw it mentioned in a review or another forum question that upscaling was available only on HDMI, I realised after I wrote earlier that I should have included this detail. I tested this with the HDMI connection. The owners manual, available publicly on the Philips site, indicates that the choice of upscaling format is available only on an HDMI connection, so I did not bother trying with component video. It seems component video supports only 480i/480p, or 576p to a PAL TV. The manual also indicates support for HDMI connections to DVI devices that support HDCP; I don't have such a device so I have not verified this. I hope shortly to have a 1080p TV to verify its behavior there.Thanks for the question. Although I saw it mentioned in a... » Read More I tested this with the HDMI connection. The owners manual, available publicly on the Philips site, indicates that the choice of upscaling format is available only on an HDMI connection, so I did not bother trying with component video. It seems component video supports only 480i/480p, or 576p to a PAL TV. The manual also indicates support for HDMI connections to DVI devices that support HDCP; I don't have such a device so I have not verified this. I hope shortly to have a 1080p TV to verify its behavior there.Thanks for the question. Although I saw it mentioned in a review or another forum question that upscaling was available only on HDMI, I realised after I wrote earlier that I should have included this detail. « Show Less
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Does anyone know anything about the function of "upconvert" on this receiver? Will it upconvert any video inputs at all?
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To the best of my knowledge, this receiver will not convert analog signals to HDMI, so you will have to change the TV input over when you switch from DVD to Wii.
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I solved this. There is no upscaling of HDMI, thats they way it should be. I solved this for older SD DVDS that I play on my blue ray like this, I hooked up a second set of connections and when its old DVDs I switch the receiver to DVD instead of blueray and the upscaler makes them look very much better than just normal DVDs. When I say switch I mean just like you switch the receiver from one component to another its that simple. I am really liking my investment with this receiver.
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All of the answers given are very accurate. My only issue (and it may be something I didn't do) is that I do not feel the 1080p up-conversion of standard dvd's is that great compared to an older sony BDP-S590. But all in all, a great player with far faster load times and audio quality and beautiful Bluray quality. And if anyone knows the secret to great up conversion with this machine, feel free to comment
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A late response but thought I'd chime in. The up-conversion can help with standard def satellite but little difference with HD channels. One of the best benefits of systems offering up-conversion besides better picture quality is that it will take the non-HDMI inputs and send them out the HDMI output. It is very awkward running audio from a device to the receiver and the video to the TV and having to switch inputs on the receiver and the TV.
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I specifically bought this converter so that I could hook up my original Wii to my A/V receiver over HDMI. I am not hooked up to a 4K source, but my receiver is a newer Yamaha HDMI receiver and this product let me easily connect the Wii to it. The picture and sound are both great.