03-01-2008, 05:55 PM
Quote:Most of the TVs and DVD-players are terrible at upscaling, so it's neccessary to have a PC to do that, if you want to watch a regular DVD.
My experience with this was that my HDTV did a MUCH better job than I expected. If I set my DVD player do 'progressive scan' output, the quality was notably worse than when I fed the TV an interlaced signal and let it do the de-interlacing.
When using the PC feeding the TV, I was able to get equivalent quality, but it took some time playing with the settings in xine. Eventually I got something slightly better than the TV itself, but not what I would call noticeable. You can only really tell if you screenshot the PC and pause the DVD on a similar frame and go back and forth between the two inputs on the TV. There is a limit to what you can do to "upscale" with the compression level DVDs are at.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.