How do I upconvert SD DirecTV?
 

I can't seem to find any information on upconverting a live feed from
SD DirecTV DVR to a HDTV.. I just purchased a Vizio 52 LCD. Great
picture on upconverted DVD. The issue is I don't want to lock into a
2 year thing with DirecTV and pay $300 for a leased unit. I'd rather
try to find an upconverter for the live feed from the DTV DVR. I
purchased a Toshiba DVDR that upconverts but I'm being told it only
upconverts the DVD signal.

Are there any upconverters out there that will upconvert a DirecTV
signal from a standard DirecTV DVR?

Any help is appriciated.

How do I upconvert SD DirecTV?
 

wrote:
I can't seem to find any information on upconverting a live feed from
SD DirecTV DVR to a HDTV.. I just purchased a Vizio 52 LCD. Great
picture on upconverted DVD. The issue is I don't want to lock into a
2 year thing with DirecTV and pay $300 for a leased unit. I'd rather
try to find an upconverter for the live feed from the DTV DVR. I
purchased a Toshiba DVDR that upconverts but I'm being told it only
upconverts the DVD signal.

Are there any upconverters out there that will upconvert a DirecTV
signal from a standard DirecTV DVR?

Any help is appriciated.

Use the s-video outputs from your dvr. It won't upconvert,
but it doesn't matter. There is no good way to make the quality
any better than it already is, which isn't all that good
on the sd channels. You could get an av receiver like Yamaha,
that upconverts, but you would be spending a lot of money,
and it still won't be hd. You are better off getting an hd dvr.
It's the only way to get hd.

Chip

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How do I upconvert SD DirecTV?
 

In article writes:
I can't seem to find any information on upconverting a live feed from
SD DirecTV DVR to a HDTV.. I just purchased a Vizio 52 LCD. Great
picture on upconverted DVD. The issue is I don't want to lock into a
2 year thing with DirecTV and pay $300 for a leased unit. I'd rather
try to find an upconverter for the live feed from the DTV DVR. I
purchased a Toshiba DVDR that upconverts but I'm being told it only
upconverts the DVD signal.

Are there any upconverters out there that will upconvert a DirecTV
signal from a standard DirecTV DVR?

Yes. In fact, there is one built in to your Vizio TV set.

How else do you think it can display standard definition televison?


Alan

How do I upconvert SD DirecTV?
 

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:13:37 -0800, GaryStructure wrote:

I can't seem to find any information on upconverting a live feed from SD
DirecTV DVR to a HDTV.. I just purchased a Vizio 52 LCD. Great picture
on upconverted DVD. The issue is I don't want to lock into a 2 year
thing with DirecTV and pay $300 for a leased unit. I'd rather try to
find an upconverter for the live feed from the DTV DVR. I purchased a
Toshiba DVDR that upconverts but I'm being told it only upconverts the
DVD signal.

Are there any upconverters out there that will upconvert a DirecTV
signal from a standard DirecTV DVR?

Your TV does it. All HDTV's that I know of do it, otherwise, the sd
picture would be a small 720x480 4:3 image in the center of your screen.
So if the sd picture is full height of your screen, it's already been
upconverted. But you can't upconvert an 4:3 picture to a 16:9 picture. You
can stretch it out to that, but that's something very different and
results in a distorted picture. Some people do it. I can't stand watching
it like that.




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How do I upconvert SD DirecTV?
 

On Jan 12, 9:02*am, Kimba W Lion kimbawlion wrote:
wrote:
Are there any upconverters out there that will upconvert a DirecTV
signal from a standard DirecTV DVR?

As others have said, your TV upconverts the signal. The reason it looks
nowhere near as good as a DVD is that the picture is compressed to death
before you get it. There's not enough information in the signal to make a
good-looking picture no matter whose upconverter you want to use.

Thanks all for the information. I bit the bullet and called DTV and
told them I was going to get cable and I got the HD DVR for $99 but I
still had to agree for a 2 year contract. Also, I realize that my TV
does upconvert and that it would never be a true HD image but I was
under the impression that there were better upconverters available and
that the ones in the TV's were not that good.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.