Mistershine said:
The 360 is crap at DVD playback full stop, so using that to show inadequacies in scaling is a poor choice. The inclusion of Ana/Hana in the 360 was a good move from MS, as the chip itself is a very capable scaler, and able to do it's job with 0 help from the CPU to avoid a performance hit. |
Unless you don't use your Xbox to watch DVDs, it's a pretty significant inadequacy.
What's the point of adding a hardware scaling chip if it can't even do a decent job of upscaling a standard DVD signal?
If I didn't use the Xbox to watch HD-DVDs from time to time, I would leave the console set at 1280x720, rather than automatically upscale all signals to 1080p. Virtually all upscaled signals, game or otherwise, are softened in 1080p mode.