upscaling

[ScoobyDoo{KEA}]

is it at all possible to upscale my sky picture,dont want to get sky hd as it is a fucking rip off tbh,a friend of mine says he has a sky box which he has conected to an upscaling dvd recorder and he says that it outputs his sky pic through that dont know whether that would work?

 

[Tom]

You can't create something from nothing. All you can do is sharpen edges and increase contrast.

Just download HD stuff from the internet and watch that HD Battlestar Galactica FTW!

 

[ScoobyDoo{KEA}]

tom my friend, as a cameraman yourself maybe you can shed some light on this,i believe sky only record programs in sd and upscale the picture to hd subscribers?

i could however be barking up the wrong tree again

 

[nath]

HD Battlestar Galactica FTW!

Tru dat yo!

 

[Trem]

You can't polish a turd scooby my friend.

Once you have seen HD football you will never want to watch it in SD again, gods honest truth.

 

[Tom]

tom my friend, as a cameraman yourself maybe you can shed some light on this,i believe sky only record programs in sd and upscale the picture to hd subscribers?

i could however be barking up the wrong tree again

Well I can categorically promise you that all Sky Sports HD material is sourced on HD lenses mounted on HD cameras fed into a HD outside broadcast truck recording onto a HD format and uplinked in HD to wherever it goes. I was at the Utd-Arse game yesterday, its all top-quality equipment.

 

[bob269]

tom my friend, as a cameraman yourself maybe you can shed some light on this,i believe sky only record programs in sd and upscale the picture to hd subscribers?

i could however be barking up the wrong tree again

I believe its a mixture, some of the stuff they show is true hd, some upscaled.

 

[ScoobyDoo{KEA}]

bob m8 tom would know trust me

 

[bob269]

bob m8 tom would know trust me

I'm not denying the footy sports etc is hd, i meant the movies tv proggys etc

 

[bob269]

According to AV forums a lot of Sky One HD is upscaled, pressing the info on your remote tells you if it's true HD or not.

 

[old.user4556]

..but your TV will be upscaling it anyway? Otherwise, it would be a small picture in the middle of the screen. Your TV will scale the signal to the resolution of the panel, and unless (according to my research) you invest in a good quality video processor, you'd be wasting your time and money. To quote:

I tried a cheap upscaler - check out my blog for more info - and found it was much worse at upscaling than my LG tv - however I've recently got a PS3 and it really does make a difference!

It also comes down to which device has more sophisticated scaling circuitry and video processing. My Onkyo amp does a damn site better job of deinterlacing than my projector does, so I allow the Onkyo to convert the interlaced picture to progressive and let the projector do the scaling and it's a massive improvement over a raw interlaced signal from the Freeview box.

You can't polish a turd scooby my friend.

I disagree Trem; deinterlacing the picture using a quality video processor can certainly tidy up the picture a lot.

Edit: to answer the original question, yes you can upscale it. Just don't do it on the cheap. The following gets a good thumbs up at a great price.

Audiovision - Home Automation, Home Theatre, Multiroom, CD/DVD servers, Hifi Separates, Speakers, Custom Install

 

[gremlin]

What Big G said - your TV is already upscaling any SD source you feed into it. The quality of that upscaling depends on whether you bought your HDTV from Asda or not.