Bought a New TV - Ripoff?

[Mage]

Same here, for my bluray. It's set to display everything in native, meaning it'll play any disc in its own format. So dvd is dvd, not that harsh-lined, sometimes pixelated 'enhanced' HD-shite. Blurays are still 1080p, since it knows that both the tv and player are capable of that.
The tv also doesn't do that upscaling/enhancing stuff for the dvd.

Actually, you are always watching standard DVDs in some kind of upscaling mode. If that wasn't the case, you'd get a tiny postage-stamp-sized image in the middle of a sea of black.

All standard-def DVD material must be upscaled when viewed on a HDTV. If the Blu-Ray player doesn't do it, the TV will. But it must occur somewhere along the line.

Right, thanks for clearing that up then. Then I'm asuming my tv does it, since I have all of that turned off on the blurayplayer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

All standard-def DVD material must be upscaled when viewed on a HDTV. If the Blu-Ray player doesn't do it, the TV will. But it must occur somewhere along the line.

Pretty much spot on. Thats why you buy better shit. As a general rule, the more money you spend the better the pic/sound.

And HDTVs are usually better at upscaling than any player would be. Anyone whose player has a 'native' mode, by all means use it. Let the TV handle the upscaling, things will almost certainly look better.

 

[Saturn0660]

All standard-def DVD material must be upscaled when viewed on a HDTV. If the Blu-Ray player doesn't do it, the TV will. But it must occur somewhere along the line.

Pretty much spot on. Thats why you buy better shit. As a general rule, the more money you spend the better the pic/sound.

And HDTVs are usually better at upscaling than any player would be. Anyone whose player has a 'native' mode, by all means use it. Let the TV handle the upscaling, things will almost certainly look better.

I'd agree with that. Spot on for anything other then a top end player. Course, if you have a top end player you likely have a top end TV.