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mntwister @ Jan 19th 2008 5:22PM
It looks like the Panasonic BD-50 is going to be the complete player. Too bad Panasonic uses their rotten upscaling method, if they had used the Reon HQV in this model it would be a dream machine! Oh well, my PS3 upscales almost as good as the Reon, the PS3 has one of the best upscalers in the business.
Ben @ Jan 19th 2008 5:25PM
That's easy to get around, STOP WATCHING DVDS!
How much better could 480p actually look?
mntwister @ Jan 20th 2008 12:04AM
Ben, I have so many dvd's and I don't plan on buying them all again in hd. So a great upscaler is the answer for those titles. If you have seen a great upscaler like the Reon, you would know that 480p can't like like true high-def, but it looks much better than a regular dvd player and even a cheap upscaling player.
Ben @ Jan 19th 2008 11:28PM
I have a BD-UP5000 here and I've reviewed other players with the reon chip, not to mention my TV passes all the HQV tests with its internal upconverter, so I know what it looks like.
It just isn't a big enough improvement over the non-reon chips for me to buy a pleyer just for it. Maybe if the upconverter in my TV wasn't so good it'd be more of a factor.
Franssu @ Feb 28th 2008 6:47PM
The upscaler in the PS3 is certainly top notch, but the deinterlacer isn't. Don't forget people, DVDs are encoded in 480i not 480p, so the deinterlacing is really important. Even more than the upscale, actually.