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Originally Posted by tomdkat
Wow, ok. This is the first I've heard about upscaled DVDs not on a HD player not looking as good (if not better) than an upscaled DVD on a SD upscaling player. Seamonkey has a Denon DVD-3910 (I believe) and it does upscaling to 720p/1080i and he thinks his Toshiba HD-XA2 upscales better than his Denon, which is quite the upscaling "beast".
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Well, to be fair, the HD-XA2 is an $800 player with the Silicon Optix scaler/deinterlacer (probably the best out there right now)...the HD-A2, while a "decent" upscaler, probably uses a much less expensive and robust scaler/deinterlacer and definitely wouldn't outperform the Denon DVD-3910 (with it's once top-of-the-line Faroudja chipset).
Taking into account the chipsets used by the individual players themselves gives a one a better overall idea of thier upscaling prowess. Just because the HD-A2 is a great HD-DVD player doesn't necessarily mean it'll outperform a top-of-the-line SD upconverter like the Denon. The HD processing and SD processing are handled totally independently, hence the different HD/SD capabilities.