Comments on: What is Super Upconversion?

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:14:52 +0000

Hi Kasabian, a Toshiba super upconversion + a Blu-ray player all in one is an intriguing possibility, but it is highly unlikely that such a product would ever see the light of day if Toshiba strategy continues to focus on opposing Blu-ray.

By: Kasabian

Kasabian — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:08:40 +0000

If this is fact it is a shot in the arm for all of those with a standard DVD collection. To be honest there is more chance of me grabbing a player that does this than a BR player.

There is no way I am doing all my DVD’s on BR, already done that with VHS to DVD.

I guess the Holy Grail is this Technology (if it works) attached to a BR player (that will do Reg1 and 2 DVD).

Having said all that, I still need to move from CRT to LCD - LOL.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:34:39 +0000

I saw this in action at CES. I asked them to put in the Barney the dinosaur video, it rocked!

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:02:23 +0000

I doubt it. I remember in Empire of the Sun when young Christian Bale was moving through the town with hundreds of people moving in mobs through the street the image was very poor with so much movement. The compression couldn’t handle it. I highly doubt they’ll be able to add faces back into the swarm.

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:21:59 +0000

I’m very skeptical myself, hence my item #4. Someone mentioned in a messageboard post somewhere that they may have been showing this off somewhere at CES. If I would have known about it, I would have tried to check out the demo.

By: Mike Greenberg

Mike Greenberg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:32:21 +0000

Toshiba ever heard of the Sunk Cost Fallacy?

By: Dave C

Dave C — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:19:48 +0000

I remain unconvinced. It is an interesting idea - it sounds like they will average over a number of frames to improve resolution in video that is static.

Keep in mind that this technique will only work on static video or portions of the video…

It will indeed be interesting to see the price points of this no doubt relatively expensive processing hardware - might be cheaper to make a Blu-ray player…