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08-18-1999, 07:00 PM

True...

I've seen my setup witness the magic of upconversion. It's a damn SHAME that non-anamorphic DVD's keeps getting released. But the magic of upconversion makes many of my better non-anamorphic DVD's look great! (don't confuse with older zoom feature like you see in many of today's 16x9 television sets, which only simply displays fewer scanlines on the screen, without upconversion). Even if the best anamorphic's like Fifth Element still looks better - there are plenty of anamorphic DVD's that don't look as good.

So I wholeheartedly agree with you: Upconversion of standard DVD's to HDTV resolutions, will look amazing! Even though resolution is not added, it adds lots of desireable effects like making the image look less pixelated and more naturally film-like looking. (Kinda like the way, many professional paint programs can resize a 200x200 JPG image into a 300x300 JPG image without the ugly or pixel-doubling artifacts. Good upconversion is often something like that.)

Just as today, if you are lucky enough to have an upconverting setup for non-anamorphic DVD, you will also see that non-anamorphic DVD can look almost as good as anamorphic (and even better than less-than-best anamorphic DVDs). Upconversion of non-anamorphic DVD to anamorphic DVD (scaling 360 interlaced scanlines to 480 progressive-scan scanlines) are found in some setups like select new 16x9 sets (like some of the newer HDTV sets that have built-in upconversion circuitry, although not all of them are designed to upconvert non-anamorphic DVD yet), as well as scaler owners like Faroudja 2200 or TranScanner, along with some Home Theater Computers with the capability in their DVD player software.

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Thanks,
Mark Rejhon
www.marky.com
www.dvdtracker.com/~marky.asp

[This message has been edited by Mark Rejhon (edited 08-18-1999).]

08-18-1999, 07:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mark Rejhon	True... I've seen my setup witness the magic of upconversion. It's a damn SHAME that non-anamorphic DVD's keeps getting released. But the magic of upconversion makes many of my better non-anamorphic DVD's look great! (don't confuse with older zoom feature like you see in many of today's 16x9 television sets, which only simply displays fewer scanlines on the screen, without upconversion). Even if the best anamorphic's like Fifth Element still looks better - there are plenty of anamorphic DVD's that don't look as good. So I wholeheartedly agree with you: Upconversion of standard DVD's to HDTV resolutions, will look amazing! Even though resolution is not added, it adds lots of desireable effects like making the image look less pixelated and more naturally film-like looking. (Kinda like the way, many professional paint programs can resize a 200x200 JPG image into a 300x300 JPG image without the ugly or pixel-doubling artifacts. Good upconversion is often something like that.) Just as today, if you are lucky enough to have an upconverting setup for non-anamorphic DVD, you will also see that non-anamorphic DVD can look almost as good as anamorphic (and even better than less-than-best anamorphic DVDs). Upconversion of non-anamorphic DVD to anamorphic DVD (scaling 360 interlaced scanlines to 480 progressive-scan scanlines) are found in some setups like select new 16x9 sets (like some of the newer HDTV sets that have built-in upconversion circuitry, although not all of them are designed to upconvert non-anamorphic DVD yet), as well as scaler owners like Faroudja 2200 or TranScanner, along with some Home Theater Computers with the capability in their DVD player software. ------------------ Thanks, Mark Rejhon www.marky.com www.dvdtracker.com/~marky.asp [This message has been edited by Mark Rejhon (edited 08-18-1999).]