Now that the TheaterTek DVD player has been announced (yeah!) and updates to PowerDVD etc. are starting to roll out, I was wondering what the prospects are for improved deinterlacing in future software players? This has issue has been skirted around in a number of threads (especially with the recent SDI/DScaler alternative being introduced).
The features that are now being provided by software players are very neat and are compelling reasons to buy in themselves (I'm on the pre-order list for TT). Still, there seems to be a gap in terms of deinterlacing quality. The discussions on mating DScaler with output from software DVD players makes for interesting reading, but I guess I don't know enough to fully understand why a developer hasn't yet gone that extra mile. Is it a fundamental problem with the way DVD playback is handled by the OS, or is a question of not enough processing power, or...?
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The features that are now being provided by software players are very neat and are compelling reasons to buy in themselves (I'm on the pre-order list for TT). Still, there seems to be a gap in terms of deinterlacing quality. The discussions on mating DScaler with output from software DVD players makes for interesting reading, but I guess I don't know enough to fully understand why a developer hasn't yet gone that extra mile. Is it a fundamental problem with the way DVD playback is handled by the OS, or is a question of not enough processing power, or...?
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