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Old 09-15-2009, 08:17 PM
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I have a few movies on VHS and I'd like to play them on my projector. Some Blue Ray players will upscale VHS to 1080p and output on HDMI. I can't imagine that the quality of the picture compares to Blue Ray but what the h... it's not supposed to be Blue Ray. Anyway the Panasonic player that I looked at that does this isn't really my first choice for a Blue Ray player but my first choice is a disc only unit. If Panasonic can put the circuits to do this in a box for about $200.00 more than just a Blue Ray player why can't I find a separate processor that can do this for a reasonable price. I mean it's VHS, not bad for its time but it's not going to come back like tube amps. I just want to be able to play my old movies besides the new ones, I don't expect to impress my friends with the picture quality playing the old tapes. I can't be the only one with this problem. Anyone with an idea?
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Old 09-16-2009, 01:05 PM
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There is no reason to pick a combo VHS/Blu-ray player for its upscaling/HDMI-conversion ability. Your projector itself will upscale and deinterlace everything to its native resolution, as will every flat-panel LCD or plasma display, and every rear-projection LCD, DLP, or LCoS TV. The processor you are asking for is the device built into every one of those flat-panel TVs and projectors.

There are a number of external video scaler/processors (Lumagen and others) for several hundred dollars and up, but VHS is so pathetic compared to modern digital signals, no such processor (nor the circuits built into that Panasonic player) will do much of anything at all to make it look good. VHS in 2009 will look like VHS in 1977, except more obviously limited because of the quality of all the better signal sources introduced since.
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Old 10-11-2009, 02:57 AM
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Why can't you just hook a VHS player up to your set using the Composite audio/video inputs?
Does your projector only have HDMI?
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