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TV Experts …I have a question
Posted on 2/3/15 at 8:20 am
Posted on 2/3/15 at 8:20 am
I was reading the specs on a samsung curved 4k tv and it appeared to say that the tv had the ability to "step up" resolution.
(This may have been HD to 4k)
My question. Is there a device made for stepping up resolution that can be added to an existing tv?
For example. If you have SD cable the device would make it HD.
(This may have been HD to 4k)
My question. Is there a device made for stepping up resolution that can be added to an existing tv?
For example. If you have SD cable the device would make it HD.
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Posted on 2/3/15 at 8:41 am to MoreOrLes
Some A/V receivers can upconvert the signal. What is your original source? Are you going from a cable set top box, or straight from the coax?
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:03 am to MoreOrLes
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My question. Is there a device made for stepping up resolution that can be added to an existing tv?
For example. If you have SD cable the device would make it HD.
If the TV is HD, it has that capability as a standard feature. It's possible a processor could be better than the TV's built-in upconversion, and there can be other advantages such as configuring a cable box to output a constant resolution to avoid the TV having to change resolution on channel changes, which can be slow and glitchy, but why are you asking about this? For a cable box, it's normally built-in.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:49 am to MoreOrLes
They do make external devices that do this, but it depends on what you're wanting to accomplish. This was a lot more common when people wanted to clean up crappy resolution going into the first HDTVs.
That being said, just because you're changing the resolution on SD cable from 640x480 to 1920x1080 doesn't mean it's going to make your SD signal look like HD, it'll just look slightly better (maybe a lot better) than normal SD cable. There's no way to take that SD signal and make it look nearly as good as a traditional HD signal is. Does that make sense?
That being said, just because you're changing the resolution on SD cable from 640x480 to 1920x1080 doesn't mean it's going to make your SD signal look like HD, it'll just look slightly better (maybe a lot better) than normal SD cable. There's no way to take that SD signal and make it look nearly as good as a traditional HD signal is. Does that make sense?
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:49 am to Spock's Eyebrow
quote:
why are you asking about this?
2 reasons
1). I have standard cable (no box-straight from coax)
2). I have an samsung smart tv and the SD looks turrible
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:52 am to MoreOrLes
If you upconvert a shitty image you are still going to have a shitty image just at a higher resolution.
SD is SD. Garbage in, garbage out.
SD is SD. Garbage in, garbage out.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:35 am to MoreOrLes
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1). I have standard cable (no box-straight from coax)
2). I have an samsung smart tv and the SD looks turrible
I have one Sony TV in the house like that. Yeah, the SD looks like shite, but it's not worth it to me to try to improve it.
I guess you could run the cable to a device with a tuner like a VCR, and then run its component output to your TV or an AVR that can output component over HDMI. If they have better SD processing than the TV, it should help. You'd have to split the signal between TV and device so the TV could still tune the HD locals.
With a PC, I think you could add a tuner for unencrypted cable and run MadVR, which would help but probably is even more of a non-starter of an idea for you.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:11 pm to VABuckeye
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SD is SD. Garbage in, garbage out.
This... Picture can only be as good as the source. In your case the standard definition feed
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