Toshiba XDE, and HTPC DVD Upscaling
Toshiba, having abandoned the HD market, have come up with an interesting 'tween' device for enhancing standard-def DVD's, the Toshiba XDE.
The XDE is rumoured to be based on 'super resolution' tech that has been around for a while, similar to supersampling, where extra resolution can be determined by looking at a series of frames before and after the current frame to be enhanced. The most common implmentation seems to be for upscaling 720x480 DVD res to 1440x960, 960P.
At first I didn't see the point, since HD DVD and Blu Ray are still the kings, but then realized not everything is going to be re-released in HD, or at least not for a long time, and some of us don't like the thought of rebuying movies, so this device will help bridge the gap. Early reports sound like it is the best upscaler to date, enhancing video quality, colour, and playback rate, 24P, which is common on HD players, but new to DVD.
Home Theater PC (HTPC) users have been playing around with different upscaling formulaes for a while now, and some of them really can compete or even exceed some upscaling dvd players on the market. I recently wanted to watch a DVD that isn't available in HD, so I thought I'd look into a better solution than my typical PowerDVD software, and roll my own upscaling chain...
Borg-HD was born.
The XDE is rumoured to be based on 'super resolution' tech that has been around for a while, similar to supersampling, where extra resolution can be determined by looking at a series of frames before and after the current frame to be enhanced. The most common implmentation seems to be for upscaling 720x480 DVD res to 1440x960, 960P.
At first I didn't see the point, since HD DVD and Blu Ray are still the kings, but then realized not everything is going to be re-released in HD, or at least not for a long time, and some of us don't like the thought of rebuying movies, so this device will help bridge the gap. Early reports sound like it is the best upscaler to date, enhancing video quality, colour, and playback rate, 24P, which is common on HD players, but new to DVD.
Home Theater PC (HTPC) users have been playing around with different upscaling formulaes for a while now, and some of them really can compete or even exceed some upscaling dvd players on the market. I recently wanted to watch a DVD that isn't available in HD, so I thought I'd look into a better solution than my typical PowerDVD software, and roll my own upscaling chain...
Borg-HD was born.
posted by protovision at 12:40 PM
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