HDTV Reviews

Since our last review of a NeoDigits upscaling DVD player, the company has since replaced the player with a new rebranded model featuring several improvements over the NeuNeo HVD2085 we last reviewed. Even though the next generation of blue-laser high definition players are beginning to enter the market, so far their current pricing is well outside of what is affordable for the average consumer. However, as HDTV beginning to sell quite rapidly, this makes it an ideal time to get the most out of DVDs, while making use of the TV’s high definition capabilities through the use of a HD upscaling DVD player.

While many HDTV sets will accept a standard definition picture, the majority of these do a very basic upscaling in order to fill the display, such as simply repeating pixels in order to fill the screen. This can lead to a grainy picture, such as jagged lines, pixely looking writing and so on in the picture. While it is impossible for DVD upscalers to put missing information back into an image that was lost during the original downscaling to standard definition, upscalers work by using sophisticated interpolation on the picture during the resampling process in an aim to eliminate the side effects of stretching the image to a higher resolution conversion. Most standard DVD players have another issue in that they only output an analogue picture such as by SVHS, SCART (Europe), composite or component. What makes this DVD player so special is that not only can it upconvert the picture to high definition, but it also keeps the picture in a digital format all the way to the TV with a HDMI or DVI connection, regardless of whether the TV is HDCP compliant.

In this review, we will compare how well this player upscales its picture against a high definition projector’s own upscaling capabilities and that of a TFT display with DVI & VGA, as well as check out the drives capabilities in other tests such as usability, features, disc compatibility and so on.

Source & Full Review: http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/276