Switch to Blu-ray or upgrade DVD player? (1 Viewer)

[Stephen Hopkins]

Here's where I guess I should have been more clear... I don't think the scaling of an upconverting player is going to be the magic bullet... what very well may be is the replacement of a D-A conversion (by an extremely subpar player, mind you) and subsequent A-D conversion by his display with a direct digital path... whether it's native 480i for his display to convert, or converted by the player, it's the fact that you're eliminating two D-A/A-D conversions (likely of poor quality).

 

[gene c]

Harp away, I don't mind

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[ManW_TheUncool]

Good point considering the likelihood that his Citizen brand player would have very subpar analog output. I wouldn't think recent Panny plasmas would have poor ADC for the application (of handling SD video), but I guess it's always possible. There seems to be enough reports of good results w/ D-A-D conversions for HD video (for both BD and other HiDef STBs) to suggest that any degradation would probably be minimal w/ the bigger name makers like Panny, et al. But yeah, the (old) Citizen player would likely be another story.

Also, I guess there's still the matter of quality of deinterlacing in the Panny plasma -- it's probably still quite possible that a recent one would have subpar deinterlacing, but if it's gonna be noticeable/distracting, he'd probably spot it even w/ the Citizen player (and could just add that to the shortlist of improvements).

_Man_