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RE: compared to what?

You say NTSC looks bad but upsampling looks quite good. I think you mean upscaling rather than upsampling. Upsampling is what happens in audio when the sampling frequency is increased. Upscaling takes a picture with a certain resolution and translates it to a higher resolution for display on a high def screen.

If you've got a 1920 x 1080 display and you're watching a standard def NTSC broadcast, you're watching it upscaled. It has to be upscaled somewhere in order for the display to display it at full screen height, either stretched horizontally to fill the screen or with black borders at the sides. If the upscaling isn't being done elsewhere in a cable box or digital set-top box, or in your receiver, then it's being done by the display itself.

So what you're saying is that standard def TV broadcasts look worse than standard def DVD.

Obviously different quality upscalers are in use for your different inputs. I don't know what your TV source is but if you have the option of external processing for the TV signal you may get better picture quality by swapping the upscaling operation to a different component in your system.



David Aiken

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