Originally posted by: THX
Laserman, do you think the improved scaling will outbalance the increased artifacting from re-encoding?
Laserman, do you think the improved scaling will outbalance the increased artifacting from re-encoding?
Absolutely, the scalers in even fairly high end widescreen TVs are awful.
Think about it, effectively the TV set *is* doing an on-the-fly re-encode to zoom the letterbox image up to display correctly on a 16:9 screen. If you do the re-encode on the computer instead, then the TV just displays the image without further processing.
A realtime, 'mass market' process like in the TV is much more likely to suffer from artifacts than an offline process that is constantly honed by enthusiasts.