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A very simple question for the TV experts on here please. Can you confirm my understanding of the situation with Dvd players is correct

Normal Dvd played through a blu ray player will be up sampled to HD standard on an HD TV and should may see a loss in quality

Blu ray disc through through Blu ray player produces max quality on an HD TV

Blu ray disc played via 4K TV will be up sampled and may see a loss in quality. Standard Dvd via 4K TV will definitely see a loss in quality

Or have I got this totally wrong? All advice appreciated
 
Afaik it'd do the following for most devices

DVD via Bluray to HDTV, the Bluray player will do the upscaling
Bluray via Bluray to HDTV, will be native res
Bluray via Bluray to 4k, TV will upscale

Quality loss with upscaling through which ever upscaler will be subjective regardless.
 
And to add to the above.

DVD or Bluray via Bluray 4k player to 4k TV, the Bluray player will upscale unless it's told to output to native res of disc at which point the TV will upscale.

Then it would depend which has the superior upscaler, the player or the TV.
 
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Yes your DVD will play in the Bluray player but not the other way round,they will upscale but not to a point you'd actually notice but it does sell more players

UHD Bluray requires a separate player even though it's the same film, this is so the studios can pretend the £22-25 they're asking for the UHD Bluray (for a film that's been sold on many home formats over 35 years, hundreds of TV stations, cable and satellite stations) is needed for their productions costs

You can rest assured that whilst users will see a marked improvement in picture quality as they cycle through their multi format collection anything directed by Michael Bay will still be s*** , nobody is enjoying it more that the film studios as they get to sell the same film over and over, sometimes in the same format by sticking SE or Directors Cut on the box
 
Buy a film on the current format of the day. watch once then leave to gather dust until superseded by a new format. In the mean time you'll watch it again on TV sitting through all the adverts while said disc gathers more dust on the shelves.
 
rjbell said:
Buy a film on the current format of the day. watch once then leave to gather dust until superseded by a new format. In the mean time you'll watch it again on TV sitting through all the adverts while said disc gathers more dust on the shelves.
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At the first advert break my Mrs goes to find the DVD. :p
 
I must confes to not owning a blu ray or even a dvd player anymore.
I am just sorting out all my cd's for disposing of them and only have about 50 dvds to finally sort out.
 
I've never even seen a Blu-ray film. My wife has a DVD player, but we don't have a TV so it's not a great deal of use!
 
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