Thread: Is the V+ box true HD
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Old 04-11-2008, 18:36   #22
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Re: Is the V+ box true HD
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ View Post
I was was under the impression that the V+ connected over HDMI upscaled and the standard V box connected via scart didn't?
at some point in the process your SD image will need to be upscaled from 720x576 to 1280x720 (or 1920x1080). Either the cable box can take the SD image it is fed and send the TV an HD image or the TV can take the 720*576 image and upscale it to the display resolution.
Furthermore, the TV might need to do it's own scaling anyway. My TV is actually 1024*768 XGA resolution but widescreen (the pixels are wider than tall) so even if V+ box has upscaled the image to 720 the TV will upscale it again to 768 and downscale the width to deal with the wider pixels. Again, if the TV is sent a 1080 signal it will have to downscale it to fit so the image goes through two scalers.
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