DVDs. Interlaced or progressive?

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by mntwister

Please don't forget another famous poster: "Truthteller" :

Seriously, maybe these upscalers will work slightly better than upscalers we have now but as I have said all along since Toshiba announced this,

You simply cannot make prime rib out of hamburger, Toshiba!

What about the thousands of dvd's out there with sub-par and poor quality transfers? Is this upscaler going to magically perfect those too? Is it going to take those very lossy soundtracks and uncompress them all for us?

Thanks but no thanks, me be blu!

I've said this before, but if one really wants to improve DVD it's in the deinterlacing more than upscaling. There is no way Toshiba is going to create a deinterlacer that, for example, matches Realta and ABT...especially at the price range they are targeting. And even something like those top deinterlacers cannot produce an image anywhere near real 1080p.

Just like HD DVD was a scam in all reality when you think about it, so is "super" upscaling.