Upconverting Backups

[thelaserdisc2000]

I don't know about you, but I have a lot of backups on DVD. These are Discs created from my VHS versions on a Standalone DVD-Recorder. Why wont a Blu-ray player up convert a burnt disc like a boughten disc?

[JJ]

Wait, hold on, my good sir - Boughten?

[thelaserdisc2000]

Why wont they upscale back-ups like they do legit discs?

[WickyWoo]

If you've created them from VHS, then it's because there's nothing there to bring out. Garbage in, Garbage out

[Flux88MPH]

You can't make gold out of rust.

Standard DVD sources at 480 lines of horizontal resolution
VHS sources at 240 lines of horizontal resolution

Putting a 240 image on a media that will handle 480 doesn't mean that the 240 image becomes 480. It reamains whatever it's original resolution is.

[thelaserdisc2000]

Ok, what about discs burnt in the computer, like those Anime bootlegs that over-populate ebay.

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by thelaserdisc2000

Ok, what about discs burnt in the computer, like those Anime bootlegs that over-populate ebay.

If you're wondering if that huge collection of pirated movies you downloaded are going to look amazing on a blu-ray player, the answer is still the same- garbage in, garbage out.

It can improve the look of dvds that have decent authoring but if they're a mess, they're still going to look a mess. I have the latest Harry Potter on dvd and for whatever reason (dunno if it's just a bad disk or they're all like that) it has horrible compression artifacts/mosquito noise throughout. It still looks like crap in an upconverting player- including my PS3. It's not a magic wand.