What does "Upscaling" mean?
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It electronically makes Standard Definition input look more like High Definition. Nice touch for an inexpensive player.
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I converts from regular DVD to "almost" High Definition, like HDTV. And, it does it quite well.
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Standard DVDs, widescreen version, display an image 720X480 pixels. High definition TVs can display an image up to 1080 tall. The player takes the standard version and "upscales" that image to the higher resolution. While it will not be as good as a truly HD souce, such as a Blu-Ray disc, the results are quite good, if you start with good source material.
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I bought the HDMI (2 meter) 6 foot cable HQ 1080P 1.3b when I bought my upscaling DVD player and I connected it to my LG LCD HDTV. I keep getting a distorted picture. What am I doing wrong?
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Hi, I bought them for my granddaughter's dorm room. I called her and asked her and, as I expected, she has no clue. Doesn't even know what percale means!
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In the copy screen it has both reduction and enlargement. I have never used them, so I can't comment on how well they work.
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Watch the "fine print" in the promo video - - 4K is only available if the display device (HDTV) can display 4K. If you have a 4K HDTV, the TV will upscale Blu ray (1080p), DVD (480i) and cable (720p & 1080i) to 4K. Also, upscaling cannot add detail to the source material that isn't there; upscaling is adding more pixels to source material to make it compatible to the fixed pixel of the display which requires its native resolution of either 720p (older HDTV), 1080p (HDTV from about 2008 & newer) and 4K (introduced now and future). So REGARDLESS of your source material, a 4K display device will upscale ANY compatible signal to 4K. A component like a Blu ray or AVR is used to upscale IF its upscale circuitry is better than the display device - Oppo Blu ray players are expensive because it has great DVD (480i) upscaling and options for audio enthusiasts.
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it refers to the number you get not size. worked for our windows really well!
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Anything 720p or above is HD. This is a 1080p, which is HD to the max. It is the number of pixels per square inch. There's no need to print HD on this type of tv any more, as it is so high in pixels. It's kind of the same reason no one prints "COLOR" on a tv description, as they are "ALL" color.
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The final upconversion from the DVD output resolution to the TV display resolution (4K in this case) will be performed by the TV. If you connect to the TV using HDMI, there is a negotiation of capabilities where the receiver (TV) tells the sender (DVD player) what formats it understands and the sender chooses the 'best' (usually highest mutually supported resolution) format to use. Typically, the DVD player will deinterlace to generate a progressive output and upconvert (scale) to 1280x720P or 1920x1080P. If you connect on YPbPr (component) instead of HDMI, then there is no exchange of capabilities between the source and the display. For this case, the DVD player will have a menu where the user can specify the output format. The TV will auto-detect this format and perform the appropriate conversion (scaling, de-interlacing, and performing color space conversion, as necessary) to 4K.
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Generally, most hardware things do a lousy job of downscaling image size - you will usually get a much better result if you scale them down using decent software to the "native size" of the display before loading them. (I just bought one of these and haven't got it yet, but it might even make sense to see if it looks better with pix at 640x480 or at 688x488 (which Poldim says is the res of the samples they provide).
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Upscaling. It will take a picture that was made for TV in the 480P format ( Scanning a 480 lines per second ) and "Upscale" the picture to the 1080P format ( Scanning at 1080 lines per second ) so the picture looks clean, vibrant, and perfect on your NEW hd TV - Or in the 16:9 ( Wide Screen ) format...
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I own the Panasonic blu-ray which upconverts my backed up dvd's to 1080p.You can push the status button on the remote and 1080p appears telling you it is upconverting.If I am not getting true 1080p upconversion,I must be seeing things.Has anyone else tried upconverting a backed up copy of a dvd on a blu ray or hd dvd and was unable to get an upconverting display of 1080p? Stephen
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Oh sorry duh lol my bad, I just wasn't sure, I'm new to the whole upscaling and blu-ray technology thanks I'm glad that someone took that time to respond to my question.
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Dear Peter,Thanks for your inquiry. Since there are no 4K or UHD discs available, the Blu-ray player itself does not upscale. There are however, many audio receivers that do upscaling and perhaps that is what you are asking. Hope that makes things clearer for you.Regards,Eric CohenWorld Wide Stereo
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yes I found a chart for this model which says "offers full hd upsampling" I'm sure you realize that upscaled sd sources--i.e. 480i dvds-- can only looks so good when upscaled. in other words it won't look close to true 1080p hd quality. but it will offer noticeable improvement over native 480i. hope this helps. Arkadin
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Depending on your setup, this is incorrect.If you have an HDMI cable out to your TV, any input signal is getting upconverted. That means if you have a composite cable at 480i going in, it's getting sent at the highest possible conversion. Of course, there's only so much you can do with a 480i signal, so it doesn't look all that much better - but yes, there is upconversion happening.
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This is a nice off the air tuner. It produces excellent images on my 50" plasma (I have a good attic antenna) and really doesn't need upscaling (at least for me). I assume you could use it with a DVD recorder and upscale the video, but I have not tried that.
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This system will upconvert to 1080i, but only when using HDMI. It isn't a very good upscale, however, and seems quite blocky for picture quality. This came as a bit of a shock as the PS3 upconverts and upscales so well for DVD's that they almost appear to be in high def. Don't get this system for it's DVD playback capabilities!