Pacemaker10000
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what BD player inc a PS3 does the best job of upscaling standard DVD's?
how good is it compared to a PC/scaler?
cheers
how good is it compared to a PC/scaler?
cheers
It's a good question - and one that will be in flux over the next few months as we see players from the likes of Denon, Pioneer and Oppo emerge.what BD player inc a PS3 does the best job of upscaling standard DVD's?
what BD player inc a PS3 does the best job of upscaling standard DVD's?
how good is it compared to a PC/scaler?
cheers
No manufacturer will claim otherwise!! All have issues atm but to better the PS3, you perhaps need to look at the expensive Denon though I haven't seen it myself. What I have seen you are better off with a dedicated DVD player of quality. Much cheaper as well.
OK, so maybe get an Oppo 983 then ?
OK, so maybe get an Oppo 983 then ?
havnt researched the auidio side yet but isnt there a prob with the ps3 not outputting high bit audio?
PS3 decodes Dolby TrueHD and DTS MA internally and outputs to the HD audio to the AVR as multichannel PCM. It does not support bitstream output that is required if you wish to output the HD audio codec to an AVR.
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LMAO!
The PS3 is a terrible DVD upscaler. Its on par with budget supermarket "HDMI" DVD Players. As a BD player, its pretty good (not the best though)
Get a BDP-S350.
LMAO!
The PS3 is a terrible DVD upscaler. Its on par with budget supermarket "HDMI" DVD Players. As a BD player, its pretty good (not the best though)
Get a BDP-S350.
I would still say stick with the ps3 and don't buy a s350. The ps3 upscaler is not as bad as you say and the ps3 still has the superior blu-ray pic quality over the s350. Unless you buy the Denon 2500 or the very appealing but stupidly priced denon 3800 nothing is going to touch the ps3.
Thats bull, it has been stated again and again in professional reviews and from feedback from people on this forum that the S350 produces a better bluray picture than the ps3 and allows for bitstreaming.
You claim the PS3 has better bluray pc quality than the S350??! Please explain how..
The S350 also has a by far better DVD upscaler than the PS3 - I have seen the two running side by side and may others can vouch for this.
This is simply because one machine was designed for movies and the other for games, with movies as an afterthought.
If you enjoy the noise of a noisy fan when watching a quiet scene in a movie, then by all means, go for PS3
Dont ever call my opinion bull again. Its my opinion and If I want to make it I will wither it sits well with you or not.
Moving on, let me guess your a s350 owner ?
I never mentioned what was better regarding scaling, I simply said the ps3 wasnt as bad as the last poster made out. I also have not commented on the noise of a ps3, I dont want to do down that tangent.
As you have seen the ps3 and the s350 side by side when testing the upscaling on the dvd side of things, I take it you can get some blu-ray pics up for us all, side by side and prove my opinion wrong then ?
Thats bull, it has been stated again and again in professional reviews and from feedback from people on this forum that the S350 produces a better bluray picture than the ps3 and allows for bitstreaming.
You claim the PS3 has better bluray pc quality than the S350??! Please explain how..
The S350 also has a by far better DVD upscaler than the PS3 - I have seen the two running side by side and may others can vouch for this.
This is simply because one machine was designed for movies and the other for games, with movies as an afterthought.
If you enjoy the noise of a noisy fan when watching a quiet scene in a movie, then by all means, go for PS3
I don't understand why the PS3 would have inferior picture quality because the implementation of the Blu-ray player was an 'afterthought'. If Sony had started out by making the PS3 a Blu-ray player first (is there evidence that they didn't?)
My PS3 40GB isn't noisy when watching a quiet scene.