Resolution Confusion

[andywylde]

Im still kinda new to all this so please forgive me.

Im thinking of buying a DVD player with upscaling abilities, as my brother bought one and it looked fab on his old CRT television.

I posted something similar to this in the DVD Player section but im hoping you guys can shine some more light on my troubles! I have an Epson TW20, cheap little, Non-HD Ready machine. In the specs it states that its native pixels are 800 x 480...which would mean that even PAL DVD's are downscaled for my PJ. But isnt 480p NTSC and translates into 576 in PAL?...so that would mean i actually am getting SD DVD quality wouldn't it? But ive read on various sites about TW20 specs that say this:

LCD: Size: 0.55-inch wide with MLA (x3); Driving Method: Poly-silicon TFT active matrix; Pixel Number: 409920 dots (854 x 480) x 3; Native Resolution: 480p; Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Analog RGB I/O

* Display Performance: Native: none; Resize: XGA (1024 x 768) / SVGA (800 x 600) / VGA (640 x 480)
* Input Signal: Signal Type: Separate Signal; Video Signal: Analog (0.7V p-p, 75 ohm/ Mac0.714Vp-p, 75ohm);[/I][/I][/I][/I][/I]

Im using my XBox 360 to play DVD's, which uses an RGB lead into my PJ, so basically am i actually getting a better resolution than the 480 vertical lines that i thought i was getting? And would a DVD Upscaler actually have any benefit on my poor little Epson??

Thanks!

[phillfyspoon]

No benifet sorry.

The epson would just downscale it back to 480. It is best to send the projector 480 this will give the advantage that the pj will not have to scale the image.

If you had a hd projector a upscaling player would upscale the image to the native res of the projector thus the pj wont have to scale the image.

Upscaling is something that will have to happen with a hd pj but you must decide wether the pj has good enough electronics to scale or wether a upscaling dvd player would do a better job which is moslty the case as only the higher end of projectors have fancy scaling abiltys.