Upscaling

[sxerunner]

How do I upscale my DVD's in the PS3?

I looked in video options and I have no Idea how to do it, my dvd's are stuck at 480i and 480p.

Please, Anyone?

Thank You in advance.

[bluperch]

Huh. Under your Settings menu should be something called DVD Upscaler. I think I have mine set to Normal. Anyone know if the "higher" setting does any good/better? Pretty sure mine was turned on automatically by the firmware update quite awhile ago.

EDIT: Okay, found it on the online user's guide. Here's the path: Settings > BD / DVD Settings > DVD Upscaler.

Here's the link to the online user guide: http://manuals.playstation.net/docum...ent/index.html

[Shin-Ra]

Settings > BD/DVD Settings > DVD Upscaler > Normal

You can also adjust this setting on-the-fly by selecting one of the icons in the TRIANGLE-button menu while watching the DVD.

[partridge]

I'm not sure what the difference is between Normal and Fullscreen, but the third option (double scale) appears to zoom the image slightly so you lose the edges of the picture!! no idea what this option is for, anyone know?

[PS3_Kiwi]

Originally Posted by partridge

I'm not sure what the difference is between Normal and Fullscreen, but the third option (double scale) appears to zoom the image slightly so you lose the edges of the picture!! no idea what this option is for, anyone know?

Double Upscaling can only be achieved through an HDMI connection, and yes, it does zoom the image. Look at the black lines top and bottom compared to a normal 2.35:1 transfer.

[Deciazulado]

Patridge, double scale, doubles the DVD size from 480 to 960, so if you have a 720 TV, the image is "bigger" than the screen and gets cropped, but on a 1080 it's smaller and is window boxed inside the screen .


sxerunner, just in case, make sure you have updated your PS3's firmware to the latest one, because the earliest firmware versions didn't upscale DVDs

It could happen with a new out of the box PS3

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[Icemage]

Originally Posted by partridge

I'm not sure what the difference is between Normal and Fullscreen, but the third option (double scale) appears to zoom the image slightly so you lose the edges of the picture!! no idea what this option is for, anyone know?

Double Scale makes the PS3 act as a line doubler. Every pixel becomes four.

Imagine this a few pixels from the image:

XXO
XOX
OXX

A line doubler would magnify this to look like this:

XXXXOO
XXXXOO
XXOOXX
XXOOXX
OOXXXX
OOXXXX

That's why it looks like the screen is chopped off on your screen, since it converts NTSC DVDs from 720x480 to 1440x960, and PAL DVDs from 720x576 into 1440x1152.

A 1080p TV has 1920x1080 resolution, so a PAL DVD will lose just a bit of the top and bottom of the image when line doubled.

A typical 720p TV has 1366x768 resolution, so all line doubled DVDs will look chopped on all sides (extreme) on such sets.