BillR
Born Again Cynic
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The lack of video upscaling makes this a no-go for me. I'll continue to use my 6 year old Denon.
What is it with people and upscaling? What are you guys actually upscaling? Your PS3 and 360 don't look any better no matter what gets done with the 720p or less resolution used by all their games. So what are we talking about here? Does 720p HD cable look better upscaled? The Wii?
I own this receiver. It's fantastic. The only thing I'd want seems to require dropping $500+, and that's Audyssey something or the other to prevent movies and TV shows from doing that damn thing where the explosions and music are twice the volume of dialogue.
Upscaling does work. It takes an image of lesser quality, pulls it apart and fills in the missing pixels. Upscaled DVD's look better than non upscaled DVD's.
TV's already upscale, and good TV's upscale even better. I know LG came out with a nice improved chip in 2010, Dual-XD i think they call it.Upscaling does work. It takes an image of lesser quality, pulls it apart and fills in the missing pixels. Upscaled DVD's look better than non upscaled DVD's.
What is it with people and upscaling? What are you guys actually upscaling? Your PS3 and 360 don't look any better no matter what gets done with the 720p or less resolution used by all their games. So what are we talking about here? Does 720p HD cable look better upscaled? The Wii?
I own this receiver. It's fantastic. The only thing I'd want seems to require dropping $500+, and that's Audyssey something or the other to prevent movies and TV shows from doing that damn thing where the explosions and music are twice the volume of dialogue.
Upscaling does work. It takes an image of lesser quality, pulls it apart and fills in the missing pixels. Upscaled DVD's look better than non upscaled DVD's.
Your TV does this already. A 1080p TV necessarily has to scale any input to its native resolution. Feed it 480p and it upscales it to 1920x1080. The only reason to do upscaling outside the TV is if you have a video processor in a receiver or something else that is somehow much better than the scalar in your TV. This is highly unlikely, so it's generally preferable to just let your receiver pass all digital signals through as is.
I don't do any upscaling, but I do upconversion. I have a Wii and a PS3 that use component, and it's helpful not to have to run a component cable to the TV.
This receiver does not do upconversion from analog to HDMI. So if you have any analog sources, you need to run an analog cable to your TV.
Well you could enter the 21st century and get a remote that handles both
But this receiver is only a smart purchase for someone who doesn't have a receiver, or doesn't have a receiver with HDMI switching (and either doesn't have HDMI or only has passthrough). It's a great deal on a good entry-level receiver, especially if you don't have any analog sources. This will go well with an XBox 360, a DVR, and a BD player with a bunch of Polk Monitor speakers.