Anybody tried out the DVD upscsaling? How is it?
Anybody tried out the DVD upscsaling? How is it?
The update JUST went live
Updating now. Can't wait to see how the PS2/PS1 upscaling works.
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Yup, downloading now. Hope this works, lol. Booooooooommmmmm!Originally Posted by roushimsx
The update JUST went live
Updating now. Can't wait to see how the PS2/PS1 upscaling works.
d/l right now. im actually suprised at how fast the its going...
WOW. Just.
WOW
Play GOW 2 with the "full screen" option ON. Do NOT use progressive scan (obviously). Holy shit!!! Consider this new feature the Jaggy Eliminator.
Last edited by agbulls; 05-23-2007 at 11:22 PM.
Even more impressive:
Pop in Shadow of the Colossus, enable widescreen but do NOT enable progressive. Thank me later.
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I tried the full screen option in the PS3 menu with odin sphere and the screen is off center. Have to play letterboxed, but it is soooo sexy- very crisp in 1080i.
I'd rather thank you now.
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this may be a dumb question, but why would you leave progressive scan off? is it because it would automatically set it for 480P only?
The games will run in whatever resolution they were last configured for, not just what the XMB tells them to run in. Kind of makes sense, because the PS2 had no way of telling the game to run at a set resolution (unlike the Xbox where the dashboard controlled it). So when you enable progressive scan in the game, you're telling it to go from whatever you were upscaling to back down to 480p.
It'd be neat if they found a way to get around that in a future patch for the backwards compatibility, but I'm not getting my hopes up on anything happening before the full software emulation rolls out.
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Question:
Why would you want to upscale a DVD (or PS1/2 game). Why not just play them in their original 480-scanline resolution?
(curious)
It depends on a number of factors, really. Your TV, the original resolution of the source, and the display mode all play a part in it. PS1 games almost always were not 480i (most were much lower, such as 240p) and a bulk of PS1 games were 480i, while most modern HDTVs are 720p, 1080p, or 1080i. You're going to have to stretch the image to fit the pixels for the best look at your TV's native res (unless you like postage stamps), and for most 4:3 PS1/PS2 games, that means scaling them up to ~1436x1080 or 958x720 (whatever your TV's native res it).
Most TV's have built in scaler chips and a lot of DVD players do as well, but the quality of the scaler differs pretty wildly. Imagine breaking out an image in photoshop and playing around with different resizing methods, like bilinear, bicubic, and nearest neighbor...it's a bit like that. You're still bound by the quality of the source material, but depending on the method used for stretching it, you can really make it look a hell of a lot nicer.
It's why sometimes you'll see an HDTV with a normal SD cable signal coming it and it looks like pure poo while othertimes it'll look pretty decent on another model of TV. On lower quality upscaling DVD players the scaler is most likely inferior to the one in your TV already. In comparison, the PS3's scaler seems to be pretty fucking sexcellent, especially as a bonus on what's generally considered, "just an overpriced game console".
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