I have three components in my home theater which can upscale to 1080p. I am confused as to which one I should allow to do the upscaling. My home theater consists of a Panasonic DMP-BD55, an Integra DHC-9.9 pre-amp processor, and the Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 7500UB projector. All possess the HQV Reon VX chip.

My first question is which component do I allow to do my video upscaling and once I decide on the one, how do I do it ?

Any help is much appreciated,
Shawn

I have three components in my home theater which can upscale to 1080p. I am confused as to which one I should allow to do the upscaling. My home theater consists of a Panasonic DMP-BD55, an Integra DHC-9.9 pre-amp processor, and the Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 7500UB projector. All possess the HQV Reon VX chip.

My first question is which component do I allow to do my video upscaling and once I decide on the one, how do I do it?Since you refer to "upscaling" I assume that you are concerned about DVD and SD broadcast. For DVD, I'd have the Panasonic do it. For SD broadcast sources I'd do it in the pre-pro. Output 1080p from both to the Epson.

There's also the issue of what output modes your Broadcast source has available. For 1080i HD broadcast and Blu-ray no scaling is required.

Hey Tom,

Yes, I was referring to DVDs and SD broadcasts to be able to view these in the most optimal way.

I am assuming that all of this upscaling can be easily controlled from within each component ? That is, I should be able to "tell" each component to either do the upscaling or pass-through, and to which component connection ?

Best regards,
Shawn

Shawn, your Panasonic BD55 doesn't have a Reon chip, but uses the "Uniphier", a proprietary Panasonic solution-on-a-chip. It and its little brother the BD35 both do a pretty decent job of upscaling DVDs.

I don't think the BD55 will output 480i over HDMI, so you're pretty much stuck with it doing the deinterlacing/scaling. It does a good job, don't worry about it.