Panasonic DMP-BD30 vs. Toshiba HD-A35 | Thread profile

Okay so I did a bit further testing and it appears I was too harsh on the Panasonic's scaling. While its deinterlacing for SD DVD isn't as good, its scaling seems about the same. The couple of DVDs I picked out originally were just extra sucky.

Wow, I didn't know that the panasonic didn't have true-hd decoding on it. That said, most titles on blu-ray have pcm, and as of now, no player can play the lossless sound of dts-hdma. So you're not doing too bad.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruined But looking at Secrets it looks like awful upscaling is a common "feature" of BD players, as most the same crappy Sigma Designs processing chip. I'll be a sonofabitch. I'm crossing my fingers this will be remedied sooner rather than later. Despite having already bought some Blu-Rays, I refuse to buy a player that doesn't have excellent upconverting capabilities. Or, rather, I refuse...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruined Dolby Digital+, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution, DTS-HDMA All it decodes is standard DD/DTS. Everything else you need to do bitstream. In other words the only titles your screwed with are ones which have TrueHD only. I know a few Sony titles only offer that. dts-HDMA is a myth, the core you will get is awesome so I wouldn't even worry about that.