HDMI upconvert settings?

[Jah_Rankin]

The rep @ the local Best Buy in my neck of the woods suggest that 720 should be used oppose to 1080 when using an upconvert dvd player for a better overall picture?

[poonaner]

Upconvert it to the native resolution of your TV set for best results

[Krispy Kritter]

when all else fails, try both and see which looks better to you.

[Jah_Rankin]

Ive tried all 3 settings, 420 to 1080 p, with the Toshiba player and have'nt noticed any big difference of the 3.

[budz]

I bought a CYBERHOME HDMI Upconversion DVD Player from wally worlds. The nice thing about the CYBERHOME model is it comes with the HDMI cable. I see that wally worlds is sold out if you wanna purchase it online. I use the 1080 settings on my lcd tv. I have to say the picture quality is stunning!

[edDV]

The rep @ the local Best Buy in my neck of the woods suggest that 720 should be used oppose to 1080 when using an upconvert dvd player for a better overall picture?

Which HDTV model do you have?

Most sets are optimized for 480p.
All HDTVs have internal scaling to native resolution. If you don't like yours, try 720p.

1080i makes sense only if you don't like what your set does with progressive 480p and 1080i is your only other option.

But think about it. DVD movies are natively 720x480 progressive. A 480p interface frame repeats 24fps to 58.94 fps for low flicker progressive display*. If you upscale to 1920x1080 interlace and add pulldown in the player (29.97 fps) , a progressive TV will then have to inverse the telecene and downscale to the native resolution of the display. Why would you expect all that conversion to improve the image vs 480p?


* that would be 50 or 100 fps for PAL regions.