Question about upscalling

[sonnyworld85]

I have a Sony BDP-S350 and whenever I play DVD's, I see lot of grain in the picture. The Blu-ray player suppose to upscale DVD's to 1080p...shouldn't that eliminate some of the grain? It's not even just the acceptable amount of grain...but there is a very noticeable amount of grain which sort of deters me from viewing the movie. Especially the 'Adaptation' DVD which is a Superbit DVD. I don't see this amount of grain when I view the movie from a DVD player, but once I put it in my blu-ray player, the grain is much more noticeable. Any thoughts??
thank you

[ObiTrentKenobi]

Originally Posted by sonnyworld85

I have a Sony BDP-S350 and whenever I play DVD's, I a lot of grain in the picture. The Blu-ray player suppose to upscale DVD's to 1080p...shouldn't that eliminate some of the grain? Or is it just normal?
thank you

It will not eliminate grain... however, it also depends on the movie itself also. if a film is turning out grainy in upscaling, that means there was probably some grainyness on the picture to start with, you just may not have noticed it.

I also have the 350.

What size tv are you using??

Also, upscaling to "1080p" is not the same as a 1080p source like a bluray... the player is trying to make the picture better with what it has to work with, which is a 720x480 resolution image; stretching it to a 1920x1080 image, it won't be perfect.

again though, it'll depend on the size of your tv also... how much are you stretching this dvd image??

[sonnyworld85]

Originally Posted by ObiTrentKenobi

It will not eliminate grain... however, it also depends on the movie itself also. if a film is turning out grainy in upscaling, that means there was probably some grainyness on the picture to start with, you just may not have noticed it.

I also have the 350.

What size tv are you using??

Also, upscaling to "1080p" is not the same as a 1080p source like a bluray... the player is trying to make the picture better with what it has to work with, which is a 720x480 resolution image; stretching it to a 1920x1080 image, it won't be perfect.

I'm using a 46 inch LCD hdtv connected with hdmi cables. It's just weird, some DVD's (like LoTR EE's) look fantastic when I play them using my blu-ray player, then when I play a more recent DVD from a year ago, it's dotty all over and I'm not stretching the image at all