Originally Posted by Joseph Bolus

I fed it some 9 year old DVDs (the oldest in my collection). These DVDs' -- while anamorphically enhanced -- still suffered badly from background mosquito noise and EE "ringing". The mosquito noise was greatly diminished by the player. The "ringing" was still there; in fact it was a smidgen worse. But the overall balance of the picture (black level, contrast, color) was so much better than the resulting picture was still somewhat satisfying. One transfer that the player could *not* help much was the non-anamorphic "True Lies". This transfer was below standard when it was initially released and seems like a complete joke now. But I can't really fault the player for failing to rescue that mess!