Upscale your regular quality DVDs? The manual says something about "when the resolution is lower than SD resolution, it is upscaled to SD resolution;" but the question is: "Does it upscale your SD disks to near-HD quality?
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No. Essentially what it does, is upscale. Most hdtvs don't do the best job in the world at upscaling low resolutions like 480i/p. Blu-ray players have internal processing to help clean up the picture. So this will deffinately make your movies look better, but don't expect hd quality. One more thing, HDMI and DVI ONLY! You can't upscale DVDS on COMPONENT. Now SOME will let you with vga. If you can find a good upscaling dvd player for 40 or less dollars, I'd HIGHLY recoomend it. Any more? Just get a great blu-ray player like this.
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I own the Panasonic blu-ray which upconverts my backed up dvd's to 1080p.You can push the status button on the remote and 1080p appears telling you it is upconverting.If I am not getting true 1080p upconversion,I must be seeing things.Has anyone else tried upconverting a backed up copy of a dvd on a blu ray or hd dvd and was unable to get an upconverting display of 1080p? Stephen
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Why are you upconverting to 1080p? This just uses more storage space. Upconverting to a higher pixel density will not improve the video quality. If anything, like all conversion processes, there will be some loss of quality.
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I have a "stupid" question. My LCD sets are only 720p. Will I get a markedly better picture from my DVD player that I currently have when I put in a Blu-Ray disc on these sets?
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Original resolution, as some had mentioned. The reason why is so when you send it to a CRT, you'll still get scanlines for most of the old systems you throw at it. (Though I suppose something like a Dreamcast would actually do 480i for most of its games???)If you need something to upscale to 480p, you'll actually want a proper scaler like the Framemeister (if you can throw down that much money anyway), or possibly an HDMI converter if you don't mind going up to 720p/1080p.
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Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best recorder I've ever had. I hope my comments have helped a little. Larry Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best... » Read More Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best recorder I've ever had. I hope my comments have helped a little. Larry « Show Less
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I think that's the one biggest flaw with this Sony model. If it senses a 720 or 1080 signal, it won't allow you to select Normal setting. A 4:3 image gets blown up and distorted by either "full" or "zoom" settings. I solved it with DVDs by changing the setting at the level of the Sony player. But I haven't hooked up to a hdtv digital box yet, so I'm not sure how I'll deal with it then. You could use your DVD player as a tuner, possibly, but I hope there's a better solution than that or the TV gets sent back.
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Am I crazy, or is it more than a bit offputting that, after buying a machine, you then have to start getting upgrades for it just to be able to play newer discs? My machine's about two years old, and the last disc I bought wouldn't load. Seems like a rip-off to me. And it's not like blu-ray sales have been strong enough to justify this sort of customer fleecing.
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The description states, "1080p up-conversion to up-convert content recorded in the 480i/p or 720p format to 1080p." That means your regular old discs play, and it makes them look more like HD discs.
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I pre-ordered this model as opposed to the LG combo. The reason is because the Samsung upscales DVDs to 1080p, while the LG upscales them to only 1080i. While this certainly is not a deal breaker to most, it is to me. Also the LG is $200 more.
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I guess my question is: will this blue-ray player, play regular dvds, as well as others? I'm not that big into the movie scene, but it would be nice to watch my reuglar dvds, in HD quality. I do have an 1080p HDTV with all the works if that helps...please...I don't need a top of the line, just a decent blue-ray player..thanks! Note: I don't do streaming & special downlaods for movies, I just need something simple to use, yet that is good quality. I'm not a techno-person!
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Here is a video that I took. It is recorded at 720P. I didn't want to bother with 1080P because I don't think it would have made that much difference and would just chew through hard drive space faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz7ZmTy87Vk
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Did you ever find out if it would play PAL format DVDs? I wonder it as well, i have one and i want to buy something on PAL format but i am afraid that once i buy it the player will not play them. Anyone know?
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Dear Peter, Thanks for your inquiry. Since there are no 4K or UHD discs available, the Blu-ray player itself does not upscale. There are however, many audio receivers that do upscaling and perhaps that is what you are asking. Hope that makes things clearer for you. Regards, Eric Cohen World Wide Stereo
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Thx Gibo, but could you be a little be more specific... I mean... What format do Rip dvds have? If this upscaling dvd player cant... which one can?
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The picture quality depends on your file. If you have a video file or a photo of low quality/resolution, do not expect too see it as HD.If you have high quality files, then it will play them great.
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You're welcome. I ended up adjusting the screen size through my HDTV, I have a Samsung that has a 'fill screen option' and it seems to work better because it doesn't cut the edges off. I love the quality of the picture of my dvds. so much better than the regular dvd player I had. Maybe some day I'll switch to Blu-ray, but for now this works just great!