Peter Darley wrote:
Unfortunately, it depends on the TV. About the only way to know for sure is to try both (all three?) ways. Different sets have different scaling quality.I'm building a frontend box to go with a tv that is 1080i capable. I'm not planning on tuning HDTV, and I'm not likely to play dvds through the myth box, so I don't have a compelling reason to drive the tv as an HDTV.The question is: For regular format tv, would I be better off outputting it via svideo and letting the tv scale it, or would I be better off letting the frontend scale the video, then outputting it at 1080i via a component out? The machine isn't going to have a tuner, and will have an mpeg2 hardware decoder, so I'm not woried about load on the machine, just picture quality.
Note, also, that it's likely that you have a TV that has 720p resolution (1080p resolution is new again). You might want to try 1280x720p as well as 1920x1080i to test.
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