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gooktime
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 Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:49 am Post subject: Upscaling DVD players?! |
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I'm looking to pick up an upscaling DVD player at the moment - the 360 works nicely but it's a little loud for this purpose and I keep getting invites and messages and so forth while I'm watching movies, so....
Anything in particular I should look for? Will any old £50 box do the job? Are all DVD players multi-region these days? |
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Ashura
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Far East of Eden
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:23 am |
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I don't know if the 360 upscales. It didn't before, and everything looked like ass... did they just add the feature or something?
By the way, the PS3 is a great upscaling DVD player, surprisingly. |
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gooktime
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:00 am |
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| Ashura wrote: |
I don't know if the 360 upscales. It didn't before, and everything looked like ass... did they just add the feature or something?
By the way, the PS3 is a great upscaling DVD player, surprisingly. |
It does, but only via VGA. |
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lolipalooza
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Curitiba, Brazil
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:04 am |
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| I've heard good things about the Denon ones (DVD-2930 and DVD-3930). And, to a lesser extent, Oppo. |
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belthegor
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: NY
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: Re: Upscaling DVD players?! |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| the 360 works nicely but it's a little loud for this purpose and I keep getting invites and messages and so forth while I'm watching movies, so.... |
There's an option to turn notifications off while you're watching movies. |
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saudade
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dementia
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:40 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| Ashura wrote: |
I don't know if the 360 upscales. It didn't before, and everything looked like ass... did they just add the feature or something?
By the way, the PS3 is a great upscaling DVD player, surprisingly. |
It does, but only via VGA. |
Elites upscale over HDMI as well.
Hacked Xboxes with XMBC can upscale to 1080i, too. |
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gooktime
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:56 pm |
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Elites upscale over HDMI as well.
Hacked Xboxes with XMBC can upscale to 1080i, too. |
Yeah, I've been looking for somewhere in the UK that still has component cables for the original xbox and shit, I can't find them even on ebay. |
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Shapermc
crawling in his skin
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Chicago via St. Louis
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:17 pm |
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| Ashura wrote: |
| By the way, the PS3 is a great upscaling DVD player, surprisingly. |
I think that's just buyer's remorse.
Yeah, it does a better job than the PS2 does, and it’s not as bad as some cheap DVD players via component, but if you have the money you’re better off getting a stand-alone player.
My suggestion is to go for something with the Faroudja chip in it. There are quite a few brands that sport this technology, and Samsung recently was selling one that did 1080p upscaling for $60 (about £30) with the chip, but that was on sale and the sale’s over. Also, really, I don’t feel that there’s much of a difference between 720p and 1080p upscaling. I mean, there is, but if it comes down to a pinch you’ll probably be fine just going with 720p and a better player than going with 1080p minus all the bells and whistles.
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Shapermc
crawling in his skin
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Location: Chicago via St. Louis
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:25 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| Hacked Xboxes with XMBC can upscale to 1080i, too. |
Yeah, I've been looking for somewhere in the UK that still has component cables for the original xbox and shit, I can't find them even on ebay. |
Toups did some research on this recently. Shoot him a PM to ask what brand he bought that had component cables and optical cables for a pretty good price.
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gooktime
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saudade
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:10 am |
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Hm. Looks like an upgrade model to me. Definitely more expensive.
This is tough since I've got no experience in price-hunting outside Teh U.S.A.
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Shapermc
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:01 pm |
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I think that's the model. I can't be certain as I don't have the flyer anymore and I don't remember the details off hand. Also, as a nice thing to point out: that DVD player will play DIVX (Mpeg-4) files... which you may find very awesomely useful.
FAKE EDIT: Cheaper here
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Toups
tyranically banal
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
Location: Ebon Keep
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:25 am |
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| Shapermc wrote: |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| Hacked Xboxes with XMBC can upscale to 1080i, too. |
Yeah, I've been looking for somewhere in the UK that still has component cables for the original xbox and shit, I can't find them even on ebay. |
Toups did some research on this recently. Shoot him a PM to ask what brand he bought that had component cables and optical cables for a pretty good price. |
hah! I actually have some monster component cables with the attached optical dongle which I wound up not using.
i'll be willing to sell them to you for cheep!
also yeah, a hacked xbox makes a mighty fine upscaling DVD player. it can be a bit of a pain to set up, though.
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