Toshiba CEO talks about life after HD DVD
Monday, March 3, 2008
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If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images.
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Hmmmmmmm...very interesting... 
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This dude must have smoked a rock or 2 before making that comment!
If there ever comes day when SD-DVD upconverted looks as good as HD/BR I will be VERY surprised.
If there ever comes day when SD-DVD upconverted looks as good as HD/BR I will be VERY surprised.
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The upconversion Nishida's talking about is "Super Upconversion" or Real-Time Super Resolution technique that has been used in astronomy and by intelligence services for decades. CELL's computational power allows real-time super resolution processing of SD video to increase its native resolution to 960p, by fusing 9 frames front and back.
The Super Resolution(aka Super Upconversion) output is truely 960p, and journalists who have seen the demo at trade shows like CEDEC and CES vouched that it really worked. Previously, Super Upconversion was scheduled to appear on Sharp and Toshiba HDTV sets only, but the death of HD-DVD changed all that it is now confirmed that Super Upconversion will come to DVD players as well.
The Super Resolution(aka Super Upconversion) output is truely 960p, and journalists who have seen the demo at trade shows like CEDEC and CES vouched that it really worked. Previously, Super Upconversion was scheduled to appear on Sharp and Toshiba HDTV sets only, but the death of HD-DVD changed all that it is now confirmed that Super Upconversion will come to DVD players as well.
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Oh, dear. I see an invitation here for another one of Tim's posts. 
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Hmmm. Very interesting.....
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Predicted future of Toshiba's CEO:
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I did some reading on "super resolution" on Wikipedia, which sent me to this link:
http://www.psi.toronto.edu/~vincent/videoepitome.html
Interesting stuff, but this is similar to colorizing old movies, as it will likely create images that were not the intent of the filmmaker. It may be an approximation of a true HD picture, but it won't be a true reproduction as there is visual information that is only being logically guessed at. No thanks.
If you don't like previous DVD "breakthroughs" such as edge enhancement and digital noise reduction (good examples of it here: http://www.cinedrome.ch/hometheater/dvd/dnr/text.html), then I'll bet you won't like "super resolution", either.
http://www.psi.toronto.edu/~vincent/videoepitome.html
Interesting stuff, but this is similar to colorizing old movies, as it will likely create images that were not the intent of the filmmaker. It may be an approximation of a true HD picture, but it won't be a true reproduction as there is visual information that is only being logically guessed at. No thanks.
If you don't like previous DVD "breakthroughs" such as edge enhancement and digital noise reduction (good examples of it here: http://www.cinedrome.ch/hometheater/dvd/dnr/text.html), then I'll bet you won't like "super resolution", either.
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Yeah i don't know how well this superconversion will work....kinda sounds like what we refer to as interpolation in the photography world. The bottom line is you can only only make a picture look so good working from a small file....or in this case working with only 480P.
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I find it funny that Skyhawk is the first one to laugh. Big Surprise there.
Anyways, this technology is not al that dissimilar to what HDTV already is. Not quite 1080p, but comparable to a native 1080i/720p signal. The scaler onboard the DVD player will bring it up to 1080p. Hindsight 20/20 if the players are affordable, it will sell well. They could possibly still market the product as a High Definition DVD Player. Not a HD DVD player.
Anyways, this technology is not al that dissimilar to what HDTV already is. Not quite 1080p, but comparable to a native 1080i/720p signal. The scaler onboard the DVD player will bring it up to 1080p. Hindsight 20/20 if the players are affordable, it will sell well. They could possibly still market the product as a High Definition DVD Player. Not a HD DVD player.
