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Originally Posted by Happy_Evil_Dude /forum/post/15406097
I'm sorry but that's not what I meant. What you refer to is simply stretching the image for it to fill the screen. I'm referring to the technology which came with "upscaling DVD players" & "Blu Ray players" through which the image of standard DVDs will not only fill up your screen whatever its size is (cause that's pretty obvious) but also be of better quality, hovering somewhere between standard DVD and Blu Ray quality.
That is just doing the scaling (and de-interlacing) properly...
You can't invent information that isn't there.
The good upscaling DVD players and Blu-ray players do a high-quality de-interlace (as the good video cards do) and then some allow some noise reduction (to reduce the mosquito noise on heavily compressed discs- but best reduced on good discs) and some edge enhancement (that most discs can do without) There are also various ways of scaling - and some systems do it better than others.
Some of the very latest DVD players have some quite heavy processing for attempting to interpolate extra detail - and there are some proposed PC drivers (Arcsoft are developing one) that will implement these on a PC.
The single biggest quality issue for me has been good quality de-interlacing of SD sources (DVDs and SD Digital TV broadcasts)
For me - my HTPC is almost as good as a PS3 at de-interlacing and scaling SD content - though I think the PS3 still has an edge with DVDs and TV (Over in Europe we have the DVB-T dual-tuner Play TV receiver for PS3s)
Of course, there are different levels of quality in doing it, but things aren't really advancing on that front over the last year. Probably we've reached the limit of what can be done.
