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YOWZA!!! AVS forum guys should be happy about this.
YOWZA!!! AVS forum guys should be happy about this.
Toshiba raises the HD DVD bar yet again, new HD DVD player gets HQV processing
- Thread starter Capeta
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Sounds like a lot of hoopla for very little...
Personally I'd rather have Silicon Optix's scaler in my receiver or TV rather than in an HD-DVD player. Sitting in an HD-DVD player you're only going to get the benefit of great DVD upscaling. In a receiver or TV, you can apply it to more input sources.
The mention of deep color basically to me means HDMI 1.3 (which means wider color space support/XvYCC support, which the PS3 also supports). Although the wider color gamut is only useful if your content is authored in it and your TV supports it.
The RAMDAC stuff is largely inconsequential since it'll only be used for component, composite/s-video. Not really a big deal IMO if you're pimping the 1080p/HDMI aspects of the TV... So I'm not sure how this really raises the bar for HD-DVD...
Personally I'd rather have Silicon Optix's scaler in my receiver or TV rather than in an HD-DVD player. Sitting in an HD-DVD player you're only going to get the benefit of great DVD upscaling. In a receiver or TV, you can apply it to more input sources.
The mention of deep color basically to me means HDMI 1.3 (which means wider color space support/XvYCC support, which the PS3 also supports). Although the wider color gamut is only useful if your content is authored in it and your TV supports it.
The RAMDAC stuff is largely inconsequential since it'll only be used for component, composite/s-video. Not really a big deal IMO if you're pimping the 1080p/HDMI aspects of the TV... So I'm not sure how this really raises the bar for HD-DVD...
Do you get this on most newer HDTVs - the HQV processing for better DVD playback I mean?
No, not this particular brand of scaler (your flat panel will contain a scaler, just not this one). Archie is just saying that it's far better to have it in the TV itself so that EVERYTHING you watch, can get the benefit from it.
It can be quite nice to have depending on the scaler in your TV but really IMO, it's like Archie says, no big deal (or at least, not worth the $500 difference IMO) since upconverting is no where near the same as having source material in that greater resolution to begin with.
A detailed test/comparison of the HD-XA2 with an ISF calibrator.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=782887
"What does this all mean? Well Toshiba has produced a phenomenal combination upscaling SD DVD player and HD DVD player. For the price it doesn't appear that anything can touch it. Certainly it puts ALL of the BR players to shame on upscaling alone--let alone its HD 1080p60 output. I have to congratulate Silicon Optix as well in their production of the ReonVX chip-- I believe it clearly beats the image produced by the Gennum VXP chip in the Crystallio II. Not good news for the external processor market if someone is primarly looking to display movies and not video/tv."
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=782887
"What does this all mean? Well Toshiba has produced a phenomenal combination upscaling SD DVD player and HD DVD player. For the price it doesn't appear that anything can touch it. Certainly it puts ALL of the BR players to shame on upscaling alone--let alone its HD 1080p60 output. I have to congratulate Silicon Optix as well in their production of the ReonVX chip-- I believe it clearly beats the image produced by the Gennum VXP chip in the Crystallio II. Not good news for the external processor market if someone is primarly looking to display movies and not video/tv."
Think upscaled DVD's also.......which is the library for majority of people. Also, not many displays in the market support 1080p/24, they'll increase surely, but for now this is quite important for majority of the setups out there.
I am slightly confused. Why do you need this on a movie player if movies are stored as 1080p/24 on the HD-DVD disk in the first place?