Originally Posted by ncx

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I think one thing some people do wrong is that they don't fully understand what resolution the source is vs. what the native screen rez is. And then they make judgments on what looks better based on that lack of understanding. Lower resolution displays can actually look BETTER to the eye than higher rez displays if they are displaying a pure, native, unconverted format vs. a display that is upconverting something and doing a horrible job at it. The scalers in the cable boxes these days are generally not good, and some TV's also have lousy scalers. It is really important to configure your equipment precisely so that nothing is being stretched, converted up and then down, or being upconverted with the lesser quality of two available scalers. JMHO.