SR7005 vs Panasonic 50V20D

[Sylar]

i have marantz 7005. I have been exploring purchase of Panasonic 50V20D (not VT). As we have loads of 580i broadcast, SD looked sad on the plasma! I searched around for a while for the video processor model number of the Panasonic and could not find the info. The marantz I found it to be 'ABT2015 Anchor Bay 10-bit processor'.

I had demos & find that the deinterlacing/scaling of the TV to be poor! On the other hand upscaled by the broadcaster was a different beast (of course, not to the levels of true HD).

Would the marantz scaling be better or worse than what the TV provides, for 480i/575i material?

 

[PENG]

My AV7005 has the same VP as your SR7005. I think the benefits of those famous ABT/Realta/Qdeo VPs are grossly exaggerated by many users/reviewers because I see no noticeable improvements using the VP of the 7005, same experience with my old AVR-4308. Also no such luck with any of my BDPs including the Oppo 95. I know I will make people laugh when I say this (the truth, to me anyway) but the only player that makes more of a difference (better) for me is the Toshiba XDE-500 and that's why I am still using it to play my DVDs. My $59.99 Philip DVD player isn't bad either, no worse than the 7005. I know it is hard to believe and it may be because I have a smallest 50" Elite plasma. Some will say if I had a 100" screen I would notice more difference but then why am I able to see major difference between a good (quality of transfer) DVD and an average one on the same small screen?

I suggest you try playing some good quality DVDs first before you draw the conclusion that your TV does a poor job in deinterlacing, upscaling etc.

 

[Sylar]

I suggest you try playing some good quality DVDs first before you draw the conclusion that your TV does a poor job in deinterlacing, upscaling etc

I was comparing this scaled quality to a couple of movies that I have - old movies like Aliens 1986 which I downloaded recently. This Movie was upscaled but it seems using a different tool, it seems to have a much better quality than the SD upscaled in TV. How do they scale these older movies? Is there a HiEnd software that can do this much better than these video processors?

 

[PENG]

I was comparing this scaled quality to a couple of movies that I have - old movies like Aliens 1986 which I downloaded recently. This Movie was upscaled but it seems using a different tool, it seems to have a much better quality than the SD upscaled in TV. How do they scale these older movies? Is there a HiEnd software that can do this much better than these video processors?

It is hard to say without knowing exactly how you did the comparison. Also, be careful when you say "seem". That tells me the result of your comparison may not be very reliable and may fail in a blind test. I know the word blind is confusing when we are talking about comparing videos.