Stupid HD Upscaling question...:)

[b3nje]

Just a quick one;

You can buy hdmi upscalers...you put a normal dvd in, it upscales it to 1080i/p whatever.

I presume they haven't built upscalers into TV's for a reason? I presume its extremly hard to upscale "live" digital tv?

But my real question;

Is there no software available for the PC that will upscale DVD's...surely its not the hardware thats the big deal...

 

[TeZ]

i thought Pc's upscaled Anyway?

 

[Monkey_beast_182]

You got an xbox 360? They upscale for you automatically. Very handy!

 

[b3nje]

Are you sure?? ^^^^

I have one...i've always heard the myth of them upscaling but didn't think it was true?

 

[TeZ]

Well i guess it will depend on your monitor B3nje?? im not 100% on this.

 

[Monkey_beast_182]

Was that to me or the other fella?

360s do it as standard - if you have configured your 360 to output to hi-def of course (composite leads)

 

[b3nje]

Yus...composite and its on my 1080i samsung tv...so is this upscaling then?

 

[McBunny]

yes 360 upscales everything

pc's are always upscaled by the nature of them


tv's do include scalers they scale everything too

 

[Nigel]

Component, vga and hdmi are the connections for HD from an Xbox 360. Composite is the worst connection method, apart from an aerial.

b3nje, have a look over on avforums, theres loads on there about upscaling and whats good and whats not.

 

[b3nje]

Component is honestly the worse?

Really...would i see a noticable difference if i was to buy a VGA cable?

 

[Monkey_beast_182]

Component, vga and hdmi are the connections for HD from an Xbox 360. Composite is the worst connection method, apart from an aerial.

b3nje, have a look over on avforums, theres loads on there about upscaling and whats good and whats not.

Apologies - I mean component! Composite would just give standard res.

 

[martynh]

Talking about upscaling, noticed this today, getting good reviews...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129384

 

[FiXX]

360 only upscales dvd's via vga cable and not component

 

[FiXX]

or via hdmi if you have an elite obviously

 

[McBunny]

or via hdmi if you have an elite obviously

or a new premium

 

[Rob Clark]

You got an xbox 360? They upscale for you automatically. Very handy!

xbox1 upscales nps 720p and 1080i ty
and yes a lot of current tv's do upscale else you would see massive pixelation on non hd sources

 

[mark_s]

could someone clarify, a pc playing a DVD (with Cineplayer or something) through a VGA lead to a HD TV, is upscaling it just the same as a upscaling dvd player does? (its resolution is set at 1366 x 768)

 

[FiXX]

basically yes

 

[McBunny]

could someone clarify, a pc playing a DVD (with Cineplayer or something) through a VGA lead to a HD TV, is upscaling it just the same as a upscaling dvd player does? (its resolution is set at 1366 x 768)

yup but some software does it better than others

 

[Chrisjk]

Yus...composite and its on my 1080i samsung tv...so is this upscaling then?

Run it at 720p, better picture than 1080i

 

[mark_s]

could someone clarify, a pc playing a DVD (with Cineplayer or something) through a VGA lead to a HD TV, is upscaling it just the same as a upscaling dvd player does? (its resolution is set at 1366 x 768)

yup but some software does it better than others

cool, thanks. any ideas which software is best?

 

[McBunny]

what graphics card do you have ?

 

[mark_s]

256mb 8600 GTS

 

[McBunny]

nvidia pure video is what you want

 

[mark_s]

cool thank you, I'll give it a go