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Shapermc
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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
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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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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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