Re: Upconverter question
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Originally Posted by elmtree108
Thanks Stephen -
The TV that I am considering is the Toshiba REGZA 37HL67 37" 720p LCD HDTV. How would I find out whether it is good at handling 480i/480p content?
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Google for magazine/ tech site reviews, search this forum display section, avsforum LCD section, etc.
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Also, won't I lose some of the clarity (and thrill) of watching a DVD if I use my current DVD player that doesn't upconvert? If I buy an upconverting DVD player, then I won't be able to use the sound system of my home theater.
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You shouldn't. All that happens is the TV upconverts instead of the player. They are both doing the same thing, creating however many pixels needed from the original 720x480. One or the other may use more sophisticated algorithms, and achieve slightly better result; TV can easily be better than the DVD player, only way to tell which is better is to try (often little visible difference). Upconversion in some DVD players can provide some smallish improvement for some people if their set doesn't have particularly great video processing, but really it is mostly a marketing tactic to try & convince everyone buying a new TV that they need to buy a new DVD player also, even though they don't really need one. You don't get true big jumps until you go to true high-def machines (Blu-ray/HD-DVD).
Also keep in mind that with a usu 768p LCD (check the "native res" of the displays, it's rarely 720p), they often don't accept their native resolution as input, and most DVD players won't match that resolution, so you can't bypass the TV's scaler in any case. Usually it's better to avoid multiple scaling operations.
What model # of home theater system? Many have maybe one digital input for external source. Likely at some point you will have to get a proper receiver though as your system expands.
