http://www.switched.com/2007/12/23/gift-guide-vudu/ Switched Comments for For the Video Hound: Vudu http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/12/23/gift-guide-vudu/http://www.switched.com/2007/12/23/gift-guide-vudu/ALL SD movies HAVE TO BE UPSCALED into either approximately 1 megapixel(720p/1080i) or 2 megapixel (1080p) resoultion to be displayed on modern HDTV's. This is because modern HDTV's are fixed pixel display units (unlike CRT scan line display units) and all video signals have to fit the native resolution of the particular dispay screen. Therefore, an SD video source of 480i has to be upscaled ANYWAY, either by the source (DVD, Vudu, SD TV), OR by the display unit (HDTV) itself. ANY video signal one would see on a 720p/1080i HDTV is of approximately 1 megapixel resolution. However, true HD material cannot be compared with "upscaled" and "quasi-HD quality" SD video signal, because the extra native resolution of true HD signal is not "made up" by interpolation of data. That is why SD movie, whether from SD TV, DVD, or Vudu, would still look crappy on an HDTV... Anyone with one of those "upscaling" DVD players and a Blueray player at home can tell you that no matter how well a SD video signal is "upscaled", it still looks awful!]]>Mar 14th 2008 3:28AM