Page 1 of Upscaling - Let the TV do it, or leave it to the DVD player

I know it`s probably an answer of "whatever looks best for you"

But does anyone have any advice on what to let do the upscaling of a SD DVD when using a HDDVD player and a HDTV?

I have a Samsung LE37M87BDX (which is 1080p) and a Toshiba HD EP30 player. Currently I have the Tosh ouputting at 480p/576p (It won`t go any lower when using the HD connector) and allow the TV to do the rest of the scaling.

I tried going through each setting, and the image looked very similar no matter which was chosen, with maybe the Samsung was just slightly ahead - of course it`s hard to compare without a side by side.

So, the question really is - is the upscaler in the Samsung TV better than the Toshiba HDDVD one?

It`s 2007 for God`s sake. Give me my jetpack, and give me my x-ray goggles. This future is rubbish.

Pretty much what you said - whichever looks best. Cheaper LCDs have crap scalers, but the one in your Sammy is probably as good as - if not better than - the one in the Toshiba player. Apparently the scaling abilities of the EP30/35 are flawed, but I use an Oppo for SD stuff so I can`t comment.

Although your eyes are your final judge, I would let the player (source) do the scaling (they are usually better and the TV has enough processing to do) and set your Sammy to map the incoming pixels as 1:1, which I think is Samsung`s description for `no scaling required`.

I have read a number of reviews where this has been preferable, although the equipment involved probably dictated this.

Playing around with them last night, that`s what I`ve set it to do.

It used to be :

DVDDISC -> TOSHIBA converts to 576p -> HDMI -> TV converts to 1080p and displays - so it`s actually going through two upscaling processes.(TV doesn`t seem to support normal PAL over HDMI)

So now :

DVDDISC -> Toshiba converts to 1080p -> HDMI -> TV displays.

Definately noticed the difference yesterday between this and when I changed channel to freeview.





It`s 2007 for God`s sake. Give me my jetpack, and give me my x-ray goggles. This future is rubbish.