DVD player VS blu-ray player ?

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by MacinMan

One more thing, I don't notice as much difference of DVD video playing at 480p upscaled by the tv as playing a DVD in a bd player and letting the player upscale. In fact, I find that feeding a direct 480 signal to the tv provides better results for SD content.

TVs and players use different techniques to scale...for instance, lets say you have a 768p (such as a panny plasma).

If you send 480p content straight to the TV the panny may upscale to 1080p then back down to fit its native resolution 768p. (not sure if this is exact process?)

If you have the player upscale, it may upscale 480p directly to 720p then to your tv which will take 720p and upscale once more to 768p. So in essence, more scaling possible more problems. etc


again this is just a scenerio and may not work exactly as I described but you get th jist... players and tvs use different technologies and different hardware to achieve things.