While upscaling is not as good as native high resolution it has an advantage.
Think of this, if you have a huge TV and you play 480p, your TV will have to stretch 480p across the entire screen. How will it do that? Unless your TV has upscaling, it will simply stretch each pixel. Now if you could instead use some high tech DSP to process the upscaling intelligently so that the TV doesn't have to then you'd get a cleaner end result.
Sometimes you'll even have more than one upscaler. For instance if your DVD player and TV both offer upscaling you could try to upscale in either device and see which signal processor is better.
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linuxamp @ Jan 7th 2008 10:50PM
While upscaling is not as good as native high resolution it has an advantage.
Think of this, if you have a huge TV and you play 480p, your TV will have to stretch 480p across the entire screen. How will it do that? Unless your TV has upscaling, it will simply stretch each pixel. Now if you could instead use some high tech DSP to process the upscaling intelligently so that the TV doesn't have to then you'd get a cleaner end result.
Sometimes you'll even have more than one upscaler. For instance if your DVD player and TV both offer upscaling you could try to upscale in either device and see which signal processor is better.