Whether it's SuperUpconversion or not, "native" 960p out of 480i is not physically possible. They can do some remarkable stuff with upconversion, and some DVDs in particular support standards that makes the disks lend themselves to upconversion, but it's incorrect to refer to the processed result as "native" 960p in any way. What makes a feed 480i is that the rest of the data isn't there.
I'm surprised none of the Blutards have chimed in yet with a complaint about Toshiba's lack of a player for their flailing standard, like they did with the DVD player thing the other day.
I'm certainly no tech head, but I don't understand how this can work at the TV end of things.
If this super upconvert process has to evaluate 9 frames to create the 960p, wouldn't that have to be done inside the player before being passed to the TV? If it is just analyzing a signal at the TV, surely all that can happen is sharpening and cleaning a 480i signal?? Am I wrong??
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This is Super Upconversion, not XDE. In other word, 960p native from DVD and SD cable.
Whether it's SuperUpconversion or not, "native" 960p out of 480i is not physically possible. They can do some remarkable stuff with upconversion, and some DVDs in particular support standards that makes the disks lend themselves to upconversion, but it's incorrect to refer to the processed result as "native" 960p in any way. What makes a feed 480i is that the rest of the data isn't there.
I'm surprised none of the Blutards have chimed in yet with a complaint about Toshiba's lack of a player for their flailing standard, like they did with the DVD player thing the other day.
I'm certainly no tech head, but I don't understand how this can work at the TV end of things.
If this super upconvert process has to evaluate 9 frames to create the 960p, wouldn't that have to be done inside the player before being passed to the TV?
If it is just analyzing a signal at the TV, surely all that can happen is sharpening and cleaning a 480i signal?? Am I wrong??