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Originally Posted by PunkMunkey
Not necessarily...if the TV had a good scaler/deinterlacer built in then any SD material would have been upconverted to the HDTV's native resolution well enough to make the material look good. Most HDTV's have at least decent processing power to be able to convert signals to their native resolution and make it look good, perhaps the model that the person in question chose did not?
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Yep, I agree. I've seen this (to some degree) on my dad's 42" Vizio 1080p LCD HDTV. We have an $80 Toshiba upconverting DVD player connected to it via HDMI and I was testing feeding the set 720p output from the player as well as 1080i output. We used Gladiator as the test material. During one scene, I saw some artifacting when feeding the TV a 1080i signal that disappeared when we fed it a 720p signal. This isn't scientific but made me wonder it the Toshiba player could de-interlace better than the TV. When watching 1080i over cable, my dad often notices combing which shouldn't happen if a good de-interlacer is involved. Perhaps his TV is a "flag reader" or something.
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