TV upconverts; why another upconverter? The 1080p Samsung DLP TV's claim to convert all formats to optimally fit 1080p. If so, why would an upconverting DVED player make any difference?
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The following is the from hdtv primer website regarding up conversion.Does up-conversion improve the image?Many receivers can up-convert a 480 or 720 image to 1080. Does up-conversion result in a better image? In theory, no, the image will not be any sharper. The image resolution can never be improved. But minor improvements sometimes happen with up-conversion:1. People who sit too close will notice that the scanning lines are gone.2. Any remaining flicker is further reduced.3. Due to design inconsistencies, some formats work better on some hardware combinations. But on the minus side, format conversions sometimes make interlace errors worse. The following is the from hdtv primer website regarding up conversion.Does up-conversion improve the image?Many receivers can up-convert a 480 or 720 image to 1080. Does up-conversion result in a better image? In theory, no, the image will not be any sharper. The image resolution can never be improved. But minor improvements sometimes happen with up-conversion:1. People who sit too close will notice that the scanning lines are gone.2. Any remaining flicker is further reduced.3. Due to design inconsistencies, some formats work better on... » Read More The following is the from hdtv primer website regarding up conversion.Does up-conversion improve the image?Many receivers can up-convert a 480 or 720 image to 1080. Does up-conversion result in a better image? In theory, no, the image will not be any sharper. The image resolution can never be improved. But minor improvements sometimes happen with up-conversion:1. People who sit too close will notice that the scanning lines are gone.2. Any remaining flicker is further reduced.3. Due to design inconsistencies, some formats work better on some hardware combinations. But on the minus side, format conversions sometimes make interlace errors worse. « Show Less
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Ahh. Thanks! Do you have any idea whether the scaler in the Samsung TVs is good?
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The point of this player is if your TV has a poor scaler, and DVDs look bad. The Faroudja DCDi chip in this and the OPPO OPDV971 is one of the best scalers on the market.
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My SD DVDs did not look good either. The upconversion to 1080p cause the picture to "jitter" slightly, but noticeably. I went to "video output settings, selected hdmi (which are the cables I am using), manually set the output to 1080i....and the problem completely went away. My SD DVDs now look as well as they did on my old players.
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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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Sadly, after watching an "Aliens" DVD on this new BDP-350 I think the upconversion is inferior to my now disconnected Toshiba A-3. My plasma is a 2005 Panasonic 480p EDTV, the best ever made before the resolution was phased out, and the difference is obvious and painful. Resolution is set to "auto" which seems to be the same as 480p.Maybe I've missed something. Anyone out there have any suggestions? Thank you.
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From what I have read about my 1080p flatscreen. The picture is automatically upconverted to 1080p
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I was at Sam's Club the other day and did a side by side comparison of a 32-in 1080p and 720p playing the exact same programming. I felt I could tell a difference in the HD programming. The 720p had less details in the skin tones than the 1080p.
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Robert, I am not sure. I have a smaller version of this converter. I was trying it with my Direct TV receiver box to see if I could change my display settings and I kept getting an error message saying my TV was not HD compatible which is true as my TV does not have any HDMI inputs. So no, I could not go from 480 to 1080 in my situation. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Good luck!
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i sugest selecting the 480i output on your dvd player and letting your hdtv handle the video processing. but do so through hdmi or component video cables. then let the player do the video processing (upconversion) again and decide which picture you prefer. see the sound and vision mag article "upconversion: facts and fallacies" for more info on the subject.
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In my experience, it depends on the station you're watching. Some have higher pixels, some smaller. Movies as a rule are truer to 1080.
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Not a stupid question at all. Like 1080p televisions receiving a 720p or 480 signal, the television will upconvert the picture using processing. Obviously the better (higher) resolution you can give the TV, the better the picture quality will be (so 1080p pictures will always be easier to convert). But whatever signal the television receives, it will upconvert to the panel's resolution.Thanks for your interest in Samsung products.--Mr. S
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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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My player doesn't upscale very well at all. And, I am hooked up using HDMI. No way does Blu-ray Disc compare to HD DVD. I used to have an HD-XA2 and an HD A35 and those players were amazing at upscaling. Sometimes you couldn't tell the difference between high-def and standard def.
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Yes. 1080i gets converted to 720p as the TV's native resolution is 720p (it doesn't have enough pixels to display 1080 lines of information). But it shouldn't really matter, as the difference between 720p and true 1080i (or even 1080p) is going to be almost imperceptible on a 26" set.
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It is. You just can't tell because there is only so much that up-conversion can do. It isn't some magic wand that suddenly turns 480p into 1080p. All it does is enhance what is there, if there isn't enough there to be properly enhanced you wont see much difference.
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No. This unit down converts and records in standard definition and then up converts the playback in HD. Seems counterproductive but my guess is this approach was chosen to put less demand on the hardware. The up conversion is very good and the quality is about 90% of true HD. I would estimate most people would not notice the slight loss of quality.
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I bought the HDMI (2 meter) 6 foot cable HQ 1080P 1.3b when I bought my upscaling DVD player and I connected it to my LG LCD HDTV. I keep getting a distorted picture. What am I doing wrong?
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The 85's DVD 24P conversion is excellent, as is its upscaling w/24P. Just make sure you have 24P turned on in the Setup menu and then you will have to manually turn on 24P via the Display menu for DVD's you wish to playback in 24P. This manual setting is done because not all DVD's are 24Fps and it causes bad artifacts if played at the wrong frame rate. So, each DVD must be set to 24P manually, although Blu-ray is a native progressive format and so 'knows' the frame rate the disc was encoded in and plays it appropriately if 24P is set in the Setup menu. Even now, in 2013, many BD players are not good at converting DVD to 24P, or won't do it at all, so the BD85 is still superb for DVD's at 24P. Its BD picture quality is still state-of-the-art and unless you need 3D, nothing produces a better image - plus it has discrete 7.1 RCA audio outputs, which is a rarity on players today, but a must for those with older receivers that dont support TrueHD ot DTS-HD audio but do have multichannel inputs - if they don't wish to upgrade their receiver the BD85 will allow them to experience the modern lossless audio formats without being downsampled and reencoded to standard lossy Dolby Digital or DTS formats for compatability.