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Originally Posted by EM3
Can't wait to hear the review. Keep us informed please. I may pick this player up since I am pretty sure I am going to skip the Blu Ray.
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Well... after having had this player for a little while, you can colour me unimpressed with the upconversion aspects of it.
A couple of comments upfront:
- This is my first experience with upconverters
- I've only been able to do an A/B comparison with one title
- I have a 1080p projector and a 120" screen
Okay... so, yeah, the player is nice. It produces a nice image. But noticeably better than a non-upconverter? Not to my eyes. And that may be part of the "problem" - I'm one of those people who can't tell the difference when Ruined and others post screenshots illustrating quality differences (
like this thread) so maybe the benefits of upconverting are too minute for my untrained eye to pick them up.
Question: Does upconverting work noticeably better on better source material? Meaning, if the source material is good already, is the percentual increase in quality higher than if the source material was bad.
The reason I'm asking is that I've mostly viewed some older stuff which perhaps has less than stellar transfers to begin with. I'm talking about things like
V the TV series and the old snapper case release of
Young Guns II.
The one newer release I've tried is
Eastern Promises and I did an A/B comparison with two copies of the disc. One disc playing in the Oppo and the other playing in my 360's DVD drive with the resolution set to 480p.
I kept switching between the two and I gotta say that again I was underwhelmed. I
think I noticed some improvements on the Oppo version - but the differences were tiny (like in one scene the patterns on a chair seems moderately more sharp)...
It should be noted that his is not a critique of the Oppo. It's a fine player. I just didn't really notice any major benefits from the upconversion. I don't regret the purchase, as I needed an HDMI region free player anyway.
Comments?
KM