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TV Quality vs. PC Quality
N.Maniac 64:
--- Quote from: xtras on August 20, 2009, 05:24:05 PM ---Can someone elaborate on the whole upscaling thing. Does that mean it converts low resolution footage to higher resolution? I have heard that some of the western digital media player hard drives, have the ability to render anime files in 1080p even if the file itself was a lower resolution. Essentially what I want to know is, for watching anime boxsets, especially for series that came out in the 90's (gundam wing, g gundam etc.), what would get me the best size and quality. Because I saw my neighbor watch DVD's on his new 1080p lcd, and I must say it looked like crap. Pixelation everywhere.
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Video upscaling is the exact same thing as if you took an image an resized it, but with video.
Example: Take image.png which is 800x600 in size. Now to make it fit your desktop as a background, you resize it use the lanczos algorithm and bring it up to 1280x960
I'll admit though I don't have the best experience in this territory but something like an upscaling DVD player or a blu-ray player MIGHT do go. Also you can never go wrong with a PC+GPU-upscaling combo.
Xtras:
--- Quote from: N.Maniac 64 on August 20, 2009, 05:32:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: xtras on August 20, 2009, 05:24:05 PM ---Can someone elaborate on the whole upscaling thing. Does that mean it converts low resolution footage to higher resolution? I have heard that some of the western digital media player hard drives, have the ability to render anime files in 1080p even if the file itself was a lower resolution. Essentially what I want to know is, for watching anime boxsets, especially for series that came out in the 90's (gundam wing, g gundam etc.), what would get me the best size and quality. Because I saw my neighbor watch DVD's on his new 1080p lcd, and I must say it looked like crap. Pixelation everywhere.
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Video upscaling is the exact same thing as if you took an image an resized it, but with video.
Example: Take image.png which is 800x600 in size. Now to make it fit your desktop as a background, you resize it use the lanczos algorithm and bring it up to 1280x960
I'll admit though I don't have the best experience in this territory but something like an upscaling DVD player or a blu-ray player MIGHT do go. Also you can never go wrong with a PC+GPU-upscaling combo.
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And how do I set up that PC + GPU upscaling thing. Currently I just play all my videos on WMP 12 with CCCP. My CPU is a Q6600 and my GPU is a Radeon HD 2600XT
It appears to me as if, so long as you have upscaling somewhere in the mix, whether with your PC or your Blu-Ray player, then you get crisp video anyway, am I correct. Just don't leave the TV to do the upscaling and it will work right
N.Maniac 64:
Basically yeah.
Also I don't know about WMP, but I know Media Player Classic Home Cinema should be able to play everything WMP can play and has DXVA which is GPU accelerated playback so you can do all kinds of post-processing - the only problem is that you'd need at least an ATI HD series ATI or an Nvidia 8xxx series GPU in order to accelerate VC1 (ati only) and H.264 (both), but it seems you have that covered.
More info on DXVA in Media Player Classic Home Cinema:
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html
Rebs:
Take note that sometimes a DVD player ect. can have better playback capabilities than a computer due to the setup and specific hardware. However, I might be proven wrong, for I never really reseached this. :)
misachaos:
Does HD support on a PC's gfx card help quality? I think the GeForce 6150Go has HD accelerators... or full support not sure. But yea the flickering screen for certian titles and shows on LCD tv's is a issue with LCD's mainly or resolution?
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