If my receiver has upscaling to 1080p, do I need a blu ray?

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Brandon

I have an Onkyo receiver which has the 1080p upscaling. Since it upscales my DVD player to 1080p, will I benefit any from buying a Blu ray player?
The receiver is an Onkyo 706.

Answer
Yes, you will benefit from a true unadulterated 1080p source (i.e. Blu-Ray). The question is, is your HDTV able to configure 1080p resolution?

The shortest (and most direct) path will give you the best reproduction. That being said, you may want to get your video to the TV directly from your (soon-to-come) Blu-Ray Player via HDMI. Just a thought to consider.

Happy Viewing!

what is the quality difference between a blue-ray and an up-scaling dvd player?

heavenly d

is there a quality difference with a blue-ray player with a movie at 1080p and an up-scaling dvd player at 1080p?

Answer
The difference? About 5x as many pixels.

Actually, it's worse than that because the Blu-Ray is probably a true progressive signal whereas the DVD may well be interlaced, which means it has to be deinterlaced for the TV which in a cheap implementation will mean throwing away half the vertical resolution.

Up-scaling is just a gimmick, the DVD player can't create data which doesn't exist on the disk, it can only try to make it look less horrible than simply stretching out every pixel to 5-10x the size.

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