Ideal DVD Setup?

[heavy88]

Originally Posted by CWCprime

I've also been disappointed with DVDs on my 4KTV, not sure if it is the resolution or if the TV just has bad upscaling (maybe a mixture of both). Anyway, I bought a new DVD player with component-out a couple of months ago and hooked it up to my RetroTINK-5X upscaler. It's geared more towards retro games, but I found some of the CRT masks you can display with it really helps to make DVDs very watchable on my 4KTV, where they really weren't before. I'd love to try the RetroTINK-4K, but can't justify the $700+ asking price. The 5X is good enough.

interesting. I'm not gonna spend that kind of money to watch DVDs though. Would be interesting to compare to my 1080 plasma.

[CWCprime]

Originally Posted by heavy88

interesting. I'm not gonna spend that kind of money to watch DVDs though. Would be interesting to compare to my 1080 plasma.

If I were you, I don't know that I would either. Since I already had a RetroTINK-5X in my set up, it was no additional investment on my part (aside from the DVD player to hook up to it).

A similar effect can be achieved with the FFMPEG core in the RetroArch emulator. Not sure if it can read DVDs directly from a drive, but you can rip the DVDs to a video file and play them that way. More hassle though.