Originally Posted by oldergit:
“thanks, then why bother to have an upscaler to 1080i? is it just a gimmick. to con us into thinking we're getting something we're not, last year I bought hd ready tv with the view to getting sky hd just waiting for a few more hd channels, I thought the upscaler might improve sd.”
It's just a gimmick - your TV already includes an upscaler anyway. The only time it might help is if you have a really cheap crappy TV, with a very poor upscaler - in that case the external upscaler can make a decent imrprovement.
But with any decent TV the upscaler is as good, or better, than the external one.
Loads of people are buying upscaling DVD players and thinking they are getting HD - even Bose are claiming their upscaling DVD player gives true HD off normal DVD's - but Bose aren't known for their advertising accuracy!