Resolution upscaling

[gand41f]

Originally Posted by richieb1971

Scenario.

TV is 1366x768 with 24p capability.

Your sources vary from upscaling DVD players to BD (PS3). In the middle of all this you have an amplifier/receiver which upscales. How do you set this up?

Obviously 1080p sources just stay 1080p. Is that the best thing to do, set all sources to upscale to 1080p and bypass the upscaler in the amplifier?

Or does this whole scenario not make much difference?

Depends on the quality of various scalers.

Honestly, I have no idea. There are too many variables to give a simple answer. DVDs may look better upscaled to 720p by the player and then to 768p by the TV. (That worked best for me, but then my TV doesn't have 1080p input capability.)

Try them all and let us know?

enjoy
gandalf

[bootman]

Originally Posted by gand41f

Depends on the quality of various scalers.

Honestly, I have no idea. There are too many variables to give a simple answer. DVDs may look better upscaled to 720p by the player and then to 768p by the TV. (That worked best for me, but then my TV doesn't have 1080p input capability.)

Try them all and let us know?

enjoy
gandalf

It does depend on not only the quality but whether you can turn them off or not.

Example, unless you feed the TV a 1366x768 signal, it's going to scale it.
So you will do at least double processing somewhere along the signal chain.

This is one of the benefit of dedicated scalers.
Feed the scaler a native signal (ex. 480i for dvd) and feed the TV exactly what it needs so that no additional processing takes place.

Remember, anytime you touch the pic, you add artifacts.

BTW, same thing happens to audio.