I noticed a strange thing while looking at DVD players (I guess Blu-Ray
players now). Most of them say that they will up-convert your old DVDs
to 1020 format. This strikes me as quite odd since my HD TV (as is the
case for all flat panels) has to contain its own scan converter to
display various formats. This would make this a very unnecessary
feature. It would appear even worse if you had a display with less than
1020 lines. There are a lot of 768 line displays especially in the
sizes less than 40 inches. If it really does this, you would first up
convert to 1020 and then down convert to 768. I doubt that that would
improve the picture quality compared with a single up convert to 768. :-)
IAC, we should avoid using a scan converter to convert the output to
match the screen -- we should simply be able to match the output format
to the screen being used. We would only need a scan converter when a
video image is going to fill part of the screen. Most chips have this
built in.
--
JRT
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