Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Need help choosing an upscaling 5 disc DVD player

FYI, just got this notification for a Blu-Ray changer:
Crestron Blu-ray changer

Pricey stuff

Agreed. I'd rather put my money into system sound or picture quality (or a vacation) and get up every once in a while to change discs!

I'll find a way to get up and change discs myself before I spend that much money!

So all this time, it's been about money?

Hey boys,

My mom hooked up the new DVD player and I'm really happy with it so far (more tweaking required); it has a far better picture than my Samsung DVD-1080P8, and the audio is just phenomenal!

As I mentioned in a previous post, it was suggested to try HDMI (which I'm currently running at 1080i) at 480p to see which gives me a better picture, but 480p doesn't qualify as high definition television. Is the only reason the picture may be better is that it's a progressive video format? I believe the unit can also output 720p, so shouldn't I try that resolution also?

Thanks again everyone.

No matter what resolution you choose, if the picture fills your TV screen then it is being scaled somewhere.

The reason to choose 480i/p, is because that is the resolution stored on the DVD, which eliminates the scaling done in the player and allows the AVR (if it supports scaling of the HDMI input--many don't) or TV to do the work.

720p, isn't all that great of a choice because it is only half-scaled, and then the picture has to be processed again by the TV to get it up to the screen size. But have a look, some people swear by multiple smaller scaling steps in Photoshop (I don't).

Thank you very much for the detailed description Chris, I was beginning to think it was a stupid question and something I should know, but I learn from you guys. Right now I've only watched a couple DVDs via HDMI at 1080I and I really can't imagine the picture getting any better, hopefully next week when I'm up again I'll be able to try it at the other resolutions.

I know I've mentioned in my last post about how impressed I was with the sound, but I had a chance to watch Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City and I was absolutely blown away; I heard things that I've never heard before, it's really that good. The surround sound is more enveloping, and I could make out what Dave and Tim are saying to their stage hand and each other, along with audience members hollering at them. For the price it's an amazing player, I just hope I can operate it fully with my Harmony 1000 because apparently isn't possible as per Logitech and their forum members.

I just went through the manual and under the audio setup there are two different options-48kHz/16bit (the default) and 96kHz/24bit; should I change it to 96kHz/24bit?

Thanks

I think so, as that lets a 96/24 signal go to your AVR. I think!