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| with that said, I MUST have a defective unit or something, I even had my neighbor come over (who is a HT fanatic) and look at the picture and he could not tell the difference either (my neighbor does not have HDTV as I would have tested it on his set) |
I've got the player hooked up to my 480p X1 projector. A lot of people on AVS with the Zenith and an X1 have
insisted that the picture looks better upconverted and then downconverted. Maybe they came from a weaker DVD player to the 318, because I see little difference between it and my old (dead) Faroudja-based Panny CP72, once they were both calibrated. There are some other people that insist it looks "much better than my old [insert quality player here]". But then again, I guess I am kind of a skeptic, so I will admit that perhaps I am getting Placebo effect in the negative way.
But - I'm downconverting to 480p, so I can't judge the player's merits @ 1080i.
All I'm saying is that quite a few people are saying it is worlds better, even downconverted. I have said quite a few times that I think it is the placebo effect in some cases.
In others, I would think that the upconversion would work much better for fixed pixel displays (DLP, LCD, Plasma), since they are normally upscaling internally - perhaps the player does much better upscaling via its Faroudja chip, taking the scaling off of whatever chip the display is using. Thus the set only has to downconvert - much easier than upconversion.
