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Sure, they do resolve/reveal everything, but in absolute terms the image or sound is still a significant improvement over a poor system.

That's fine with me. I'm not concerned with the whims of an average non-critical user who is not overly concerned about image quality. I concern myself with accuracy. Many people may well "prefer" an inaccurate, poor quality image. I don't really worry myself with such desires. I concern myself...

Well, to experienced eyes, the "masked" SDTV image actually looks worse. This is what I was explaining above as well when I stated: "Most of the peopole who get an HDTV and are saying that SD looks worse are comparing it to the improvements in other content. Relative to an SDTV, it can be...

It is an exact assessment of what you get. If you feed a display video-based 480i, you can examine how it's handled. There's no difference between a video-bassed DVD and broadcast in that regard. The only difference is that broadcast may be noisier. You would want to be sure you're testing...

I understand that. SD is SD. DVD or otherwise. You can't compensate for bad sources. Most of the peopole who get an HDTV and are saying that SD looks worse are comparing it to the improvements in other content. Relative to an SDTV, it can be pretty hard to make SD content look worse on an...

I understand that. The point is that it is an SD source. You can test the scaling and deinterlacing quality of a display this way. That way you can ascertain how it is handling this content and whether it is doing a good job of it or not. It may be particularly advantageous to test with...

Can't they show you what DVD's look like?

If you assume decent quality processing, viewing at a higher resolution is a significant improvement in resolution of fine detail in an SD source. Obviously some SD sources such as broadcast or cable are quite poor. But for other content such as DVD, the difference between viewing on a 480i...

Nonsense, it will look significantly better. Your XBR is just an SDTV. Moving to a higher definition television with quality processing should dramatically improve the quality of SD content.