Revisiting Toshiba Super Upconversion : It is really a super resolution 960p native

[steaky]

$100 these machines will cost the same as a BD player.

[toon12]

Originally Posted by cooper1010

i think it's much more simple than that; he's a paid troll.

that is absurd. unless of course he is paid by Sony to discredit Toshiba...hey, I may have hit on something here!!!

[Grubert]

Deadmeat
Banned

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[steaky]

Ive always laughed at the irony of that username.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Grubert

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thank god.

[Ace_of_Sevens]

Originally Posted by Deadmeat

There are plenty of newer techs that failed to replace the older ones, such as LD, SACD, Super-VHS, D-VHS, and UMD. Blu-Ray's failure to replace DVD wouldn't be the first, nor the last, example of that.

I'd say LD replaced home projection of 8 mm quite nicely. Or do you not even know what order these things came in?

[HiDefFanboy]

Hey, I was hoping this thread had not died yet, as I have heard jucy rumors from unreliable sources that Toshiba will be promoting the new Super Up Converting capabilities (SUC).

Personally, if this is true, as a Blu-ray supporter I am ready to concede... Incredible Toshiba dvd - Super Up Conversion - Think about it - this could be the future - IT'd SUC

The best part is the new tagline to replace "HD DVD - the look and sound of Perfect"

It will be "Toshiba: We Do SUC"

[Coolpplse]

Originally Posted by Deadmeat

Front 4 frames and back 4 frames.

lol I wonder what happens to incorrectly 3:2 Pulldown flagged movies here

[ElektronikSupersonik]

duplicate post owns me

[ElektronikSupersonik]

Originally Posted by Wulf

Toshiba really turned Blu-ray death blow around on Blu if the tech does what it's expected to do.

yea great. So the next gen dvd format will allow us to watch movies in 960p? wow, really looking forward to that.

[SRW1000]

It's too bad that this topic has been derailed, since super-resolution does sound like an interesting solution to the thousands of DVDs that may never see an HD release.

Here's an excerpt from Clint DeBoer's take on it from Audioholics (Sorry, can't post urls yet, so you'll have to add the www yourself: audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/toshiba-cell-broadband-video-processor):

It's always been said by us that you cannot take standard definition, upconvert it to HD and expect the same results as if you had an actual HD source. With that said, the cell processor technique demoed by Toshiba - in real-time so as to not be mistaken for a parlor trick - came pretty darn close. Detail popped and edges cleared up without the typical artifacts you'd expect. We did notice some jaggy artifacts on some of the material, but overall this is a technology that is extremely promising. We're hoping it debuts sometime by 2009, but there was no specific release information given from Toshiba on the official timeline.

The article also has a few pictures showing the result of the processing.

Could this replace HD? No, but it could certainly be used as a selling feature for new HD DVD or Blu-ray players in the future.

Scott

[cheet]

Originally Posted by SRW1000

It's too bad that this topic has been derailed, since super-resolution does sound like an interesting solution to the thousands of DVDs that may never see an HD release.

indeed... any solution to improve the quality of upscaled SD material on fixed pixel displays is welcomed by me

there are still hundreds of new release movies that are only being released on DVD and literally thousands of back cat titles that will never see a blu-ray release... personally i cant live by a steady diet of hollywood blockbusters on blu-ray alone, i love to watch all the indie and foreign language movies as well most of which only come out on dvd

i don't see this as a competitor to blu-ray i see this as a way to make my dvd collection (which is still growing) look better on a fixed pixel display

blu-ray is fantastic but im not going to snob films because they aren't available in HD

[EL_BOMBASTICO]

Necrobumpers should be banned!

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by EL_BOMBASTICO

Necrobumpers should be banned!

lol, try reading the rules of what constitutes a necrobump before getting exited.

Any post, that is made in a 'dead thread' (a thread that has gone without a new post for 1 month or more), with the intent of starting the arguement up again, will receive an infraction.