Okay so I'm very new to audio/video but I recently got the "Olevia 65” 1080p LCD HDTV" from woot. com and it has a Realta HQV video processor, and for a receiver I got the Denon AVR-2809CI.

The way I currently have it plugged in is this. Wall cable to the cable box (comcast cable) out to HDMI to the Denon receiver, out to HDMI to the TV.

I believe anytime you send a signal to the TV that is not the native rez, but is an accepted rez, the TV does scaling.

In the same vein, the TV will do de-interlacing if you send it an interlaced content.

In my mind, if you want the TV to use its own hardware to work on SD content you would be sending it 480i.

If you can identify what the TV is receiving and you know the original feed, you can tell which component is doing what for the most part. If you are sending 480 via HDMI to the receiver and the TV says it is receiving 1080 than the receiver is doing the scaling.

There is a button on the RC-LRN i think called display that shows the feed into the TV.

Usually you have to tell the cable box or sat. receiver whether you want the video as-is or whether you want the video output always in a specific format such as 720p.

Also, if your A/V receiver has upconversion, you need to tell it whether to perform such upconversion.

Normally if you tell the cable box to output the video as-is and tell the A/V receiver not to do any conversion, then the TV will autoselect the incoming video format and do all of the necessary conversion and scaling.

On average, today's cable boxes still do a poorer conversion of anything to anything compared with today's TV's.

Okay so I'm very new to audio/video but I recently got the "Olevia 65” 1080p LCD HDTV" from woot. com and it has a Realta HQV video processor, and for a receiver I got the Denon AVR-2809CI.

The way I currently have it plugged in is this. Wall cable to the cable box (comcast cable) out to HDMI to the Denon receiver, out to HDMI to the TV.

I have literally the exact same setup. Its fairly easy to tell where the upscaling is being done depending on your cable box. If you hit the "Display" button on the bottom of the Olevia remote it will tell you the signal its recieving the source. Anything that comes out of my 360 or PS3 comes out at 1080p 60hz. If I'm watching non HD signals from my FIOS STB it will say 480i 30hz or whatever is appropriate. I've not found a way to get the 2809 to autoscale for me, but I havent looked into it yet. Ive only had mine a week.

Usually you have to tell the cable box or sat. receiver whether you want the video as-is or whether you want the video output always in a specific format such as 720p.

Also, if your A/V receiver has upconversion, you need to tell it whether to perform such upconversion.

Normally if you tell the cable box to output the video as-is and tell the A/V receiver not to do any conversion, then the TV will autoselect the incoming video format and do all of the necessary conversion and scaling.

On average, today's cable boxes still do a poorer conversion of anything to anything compared with today's TV's.


My FIOS STB will leave SD content alone and upscale HD content to whatever resolution you select. It gives me the options of 480p, 720p and 1080i. That means if I choose 1080i it upscales all HD content thats not 1080i to 1080i. If I select 480p it downscales any higher def content down to 480p. The scaler they use is pretty poor so there are always artifacts in any upscaled signal.