Does the absolute best job at upconverting standard dvd's that i have ever seen!

I've tried the oppo, denon 5900, denon 3910, panny dvdrp82 (no upconversion), and the Theta compli (no upconversion). Either way, i am shocked at how good of a job it does!!!!

I also have tried the Toshiba xa2 ( i own the xa1), and have the BD10a. I used to have the Sammy 1200. Again, i know that the Toshiba xa2 has been given outstanding reviews regarding upconversion....My opinion, the 5000 is better!

Does the absolute best job at upconverting standard dvd's that i have ever seen!

I've tried the oppo, denon 5900, denon 3910, panny dvdrp82 (no upconversion), and the Theta compli (no upconversion). Either way, i am shocked at how good of a job it does!!!!This is the first thing that even rivals my Sony set's scaler with the Panny RP56 480p player. Oppo didn't cut it. Haven't decided which is better.

Does the absolute best job at upconverting standard dvd's that i have ever seen!

I've tried the oppo, denon 5900, denon 3910, panny dvdrp82 (no upconversion), and the Theta compli (no upconversion). Either way, i am shocked at how good of a job it does!!!!

I am pleased for your experience. A limitation of the 5000 is that it does not allow passthrough of DVD signals - I would have liked to receive 480i over HDMI so that my Anthem D2 can perform the upconversion/scaling via HDMI to 1080i.

Currently, I use a Pioneer DV-46AV as a transport for 480i disks and the D2 does a better job with colours more vibrant and the picture a little crisper than what I am getting from the 5000.

I am trying to play around with the settings on both the D2 and the 5000 to see if I can replicate the Pioneer experience with the 5000. So far, no luck. In fairness, we are talking a small difference but mucho $$$ price difference.

I am pleased for your experience. A limitation of the 5000 is that it does not allow passthrough of DVD signals - I would have liked to receive 480i over HDMI so that my Anthem D2 can perform the upconversion/scaling via HDMI to 1080i.

Currently, I use a Pioneer DV-46AV as a transport for 480i disks and the D2 does a better job with colours more vibrant and the picture a little crisper than what I am getting from the 5000.

I am trying to play around with the settings on both the D2 and the 5000 to see if I can replicate the Pioneer experience with the 5000. So far, no luck. In fairness, we are talking a small difference but mucho $$$ price difference.

I guess you compared the scaled 1080i coming from the 5k with the Pioneer/D2 combo where the player fed the D2 with 480i.

I am assuming your TV is connected to the D2 with HDMI, right?

Did you try feeding the 480p from the 5k to the D2 as well? It would be odd a bit going from interlaced to progressive and then back, but who knows, it might work fine.

I guess you compared the scaled 1080i coming from the 5k with the Pioneer/D2 combo where the player fed the D2 with 480i.

I am assuming your TV is connected to the D2 with HDMI, right?

Did you try feeding the 480p from the 5k to the D2 as well? It would be odd a bit going from interlaced to progressive and then back, but who knows, it might work fine.

1) Yes, I compared the scaled 1080i from the 5k with the Pioneer at 480i feeding the D2 which scaled to 1080i

2) The D2 is connected to TV via HDMI

3) Yes, I tried various resolutions (both 480p and 1080p from the 5k fed into the D2 which I used it to scale back to 1080i since my display can only process 1080i) to see if these alternate resolutions would make a difference and they did not.

To reiterate my previous comment: there is a slight difference in favour of the D2, but there is also a large price difference. As for 480i DVDs, I am prepared to live with this difference while I continue to play around with the settings (both D2 and 5k), but I do wonder what impact the 5k has on hi-def DVD image quality.

In this regard, I played the Blu-Ray director's cut of Troy and found the picture quality to be outstanding - crisp, clear etc. So this results in the following question: would the picture be even better if I had a "better" Blu-Ray player, or am I just chasing my tail trying to find improvements where there are non to be found. I do not own another Blu-Ray player for an A/B comparison.

Aaah, what a conundrum! :D

Sounds like Sammy is using that Reon chip to good advantage.