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Originally Posted by Bavarian
JCL, I think your DVDs look worse than the HD channels because of three possible reasons:
1) The DVD player doesn't put out 1080 horizontal lines.
2) The DVD player isn't connected via HDMI or component HD.
3) You're watching an older DVD, which is 720 or 480 horizontal lines.
At first I was running my usual $120 Samsung DVD player with the HDTV through stock composite connectors. That looked no more impressive than on the Sony tube I had.
Then I installed a $300 Samsung DVD player which was HD, and put out 1080 lines. But even with this player, through composites it looked no better.
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There are no true HD DVD players on the market right now because there are no HD DVD's available. The ones that are marketed as having HD output are just scaling standard definition 480p to either 720p or 1080i. Your TV will also do similar scaling (upconversion). It boils down to whether your TV or your DVD player has the better scaler. But in the end HD output doesn't equate to HD quality. You can't create detail that wasn't originally there at the source.
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Originally Posted by Bavarian
Now I'm running that DVD player with 5 HD composites (red, green, blue, audio left and right). Now it's nearly on par with the HD channels themselves.
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That would be
component inputs that you are using and they are typically labeled Y, Cb and Cr. You are right, it's a big improvement over composite.
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Originally Posted by Bavarian
I wish we could get some 1080-line DVDs, cuz as per your observation, the HD channels still look better.  |
If Blue-Ray and HD-DVD would stop fighting and agree on a common HD format we might actually see HD players and titles in the near future. I'm not holding my breath. Until then we are stuck with what the networks decide to show us for HD viewing.