1. It's not BS 2. It's not Snake Oil 3. It's not HD
Upscaling is great provided... -the source (DVD, Laser Disc or other) is good. Superbit and Criterion are good places to start -the display is 50" or less (the bigger the TV the more obvious it is that the source is SD) -the upscaler isn't some half hearted implementation with Faroudja's cheapest de-interlacer rather well thought out use of Anchor Bay VRS, Silicon Optix HQV or Sigma Designs VXP.
Like I said, it's not HD, but it can make all the old SD content tolerable.
“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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1. It's not BS
2. It's not Snake Oil
3. It's not HD
Upscaling is great provided...
-the source (DVD, Laser Disc or other) is good. Superbit and Criterion are good places to start
-the display is 50" or less (the bigger the TV the more obvious it is that the source is SD)
-the upscaler isn't some half hearted implementation with Faroudja's cheapest de-interlacer rather well thought out use of Anchor Bay VRS, Silicon Optix HQV or Sigma Designs VXP.
Like I said, it's not HD, but it can make all the old SD content tolerable.