Re: Is upconverting to 1080P necessary or just a convenience?
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Originally Posted by Brad Newton
Please correct me if I am wrong.........but you are saying that regardless of the signal that my tv receives, it will process it as 1080P?? I would assume that to be good?
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It's neither good nor bad, it just is.
Your TV is only capable of displaying at the native resolution of the LCD matrix, which is 1080P. Every non-1080P native signal regardless of source must be scaled to this resolution in order to be displayed at all. Whether the scaling happens in the source, in the reciever, or in the TV is largely irrelevant.
The main concern is that some scaling software may produce a more pleasant picture than other scaling software. The chances that some external scaler will do enough of a better job than the scaler in your TV for it to make a discernable difference in picture quality are very small. The chances that the scaler in a receiver, any receiver, will do a better job are extremely remote.
Another concern is that if the receiver is automoatically scaling everything to a certain resolution in order to add something like an on-screen menu, and that is not 1080P, then you may have two different scaling activities going on. There may be some visible picture artifacts generated by all this processing. Again, the chances that they would be discernable/annoying to you are fairly small.
Short version - I wouldn't worry about it. Pioneer does a great job with audio receivers; if you like the feature set, go for it.
