It only matters that it can get to most of that 100%.
The electronic trickery to do so is fantastically priced here, but that is neither here nor there right now.
That can come down later in other, cheaper, chipsets.
The real big deal is that it works & turns out to be so good.
Much better than current upscaling is the thing.
Much better than current upscaling & in a climate where a large section of the market says the difference between current upscaling & Blu-ray just isn't worth the premium Blu-ray demands.
The outlook for Blu-ray just got a hell of a lot bleaker.
(and clinging to a bunch of irrelevant - to most a/v consumers - BS about uncompressed audio etc etc isn't going to alter that one little bit)
it still can't be done. it wont look nearly as good as 720p video or 600+p the thing is still 480p u cant add what doesnt exist. u can imrpove on other scalers and make it look better than other scalers sure, but this thing is not HD and it cant give u hd.
Did you read the article? This is the paragraph that matters:
"Sadly, the new player won't handle Blu-ray. For fun, I dropped a BD into the drive thinking maybe, just maybe . . . but the player spit out the disc after a few seconds. Until Kaleidescape offers a Blu-ray solution — which they've promised to do sometime in 2009 — these new movie players offer performance that will make the wait less painful."
In other words, yeah, the upconversion is great, but a true 1080p source is better, and this is a stopgap at best.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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So much for those who said it couldn't be done.
It doesn't matter if it isn't 100% equal.
It only matters that it can get to most of that 100%.
The electronic trickery to do so is fantastically priced here, but that is neither here nor there right now.
That can come down later in other, cheaper, chipsets.
The real big deal is that it works & turns out to be so good.
Much better than current upscaling is the thing.
Much better than current upscaling & in a climate where a large section of the market says the difference between current upscaling & Blu-ray just isn't worth the premium Blu-ray demands.
The outlook for Blu-ray just got a hell of a lot bleaker.
(and clinging to a bunch of irrelevant - to most a/v consumers - BS about uncompressed audio etc etc isn't going to alter that one little bit)
it still can't be done. it wont look nearly as good as 720p video or 600+p the thing is still 480p u cant add what doesnt exist. u can imrpove on other scalers and make it look better than other scalers sure, but this thing is not HD and it cant give u hd.
It DOES matter that its thousands of dollars.
Which means we don't care.
End of story.
It hasn't been done dumbass. In fact the review laments that they don't play blu ray discs.
Did you read the article? This is the paragraph that matters:
"Sadly, the new player won't handle Blu-ray. For fun, I dropped a BD into the drive thinking maybe, just maybe . . . but the player spit out the disc after a few seconds. Until Kaleidescape offers a Blu-ray solution — which they've promised to do sometime in 2009 — these new movie players offer performance that will make the wait less painful."
In other words, yeah, the upconversion is great, but a true 1080p source is better, and this is a stopgap at best.
LMAO
Talk about reaching E.
Don't be so obtuse.
Of course it doesn't play Blu-ray.......wtf ever gave you the idea that it would?!
This is about getting very close to high def quality using existing SD DVD tech.
The point is that it gets very very close to a high def performance using regular SD DVD, without a high def disc.
No need for Blu-ray.
Way too many people already say upscale is good enough and Blu-ray isn't worth it (even in the 480i/p standard def USA.....snicker) at the price.
This tech is just the 1st to prove the gap can be closed much further with a good chipset.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what the spurs engine can do and at what price.