You are absolutely wrong assumed HDTVs, players and recorders don't need upscalers and wrong once again assumed having 1080p upscaler wouldn't really fix it.
Here the link below will show you exactly same issue I faced with my old LG DVD recorder which is around 12 years old now did not have upscaler so either my Sharp LEDTV too.
http://www.rtings.com/info/4k-and-1080p-resolution-upscaling-explained
I think you've misunderstood scaling in general, and so also misunderstood my post and also misunderstood what the article you used as justification was actually trying to show you.
A TV accepts many different resolutions. Each resolution that is lower than the native panel resolution must therefore be
upscaled by the
TV in order for the image to fill the panel correctly.
TVs
have to have scalers built-in otherwise SD broadcast images and R2 DVD would appear as a 720w x 576h pixel postage stamp image within a 1920w x 1080h pixel window.
All things being equal, doing this scaling in a DVD player
before sending the image to the TV is
exactly the same as the TV scaling the image for itseld. The process is the same: 576p becomes 1080p. It's simply a question of
where the process occurs.
However, paying extra for a DVD player or freeview recorder or whatever device solely because it has a 1080p scaler built-in is a complete waste of money when the TV already has an upscaler built in which, as detailed above, it has to have.
If there is a justification for upscaling in source devices then it's simply this: The TV you bough has a crap scaler. The DVD player/recorder etc does a better job. But that's the
only situation.
So have no 1080p upscalers on DVD recorder and HDTV had forced DVD's native 576i/p resolution to filled up all pixels on native 1080p resolution caused pixelated picture with grainy image quality, it not very pleasant and really ruined experience to watched DVD movies on it.
1) Did you purposely scramble the order of the words and mix up the tenses too, or is that really exactly how you thought the paragraph should read?
2) You either bought a poor quality TV, or had it set with all the picture "improvement" settings on maximum which then just makes the picture look mince.
576i/p images are going to look soft compared to HD on a large flatscreen TV. But there's no reason why they can't be enjoyed. I routinely install home cinema projectors for clients where the screen size is in excess of 100" diagonal and their media library spans Blu-ray, DVD and even Laser Disc which is 480i/576i composite video. With decent gear and proper set-up all are viable media choices.
My dad had same issue 2 years ago when he decided to dumped his 15 years old Sony Trinitron TV and replaced it with 40 inch Toshiba LEDTV, he found out his ancient VHS recorder displayed pixelated screen with grainy image quality as it was unwatchable. He borrowed my DVD recorder to tested it out had same issue then he researched about this issue on internet then decided to bought new £159 Liteon DVD/VHS Combo recorder with 1080p upscaler from Argos. When he took it home, plugged in and set new recorder to 1080p, inserted DVD movies and VHS tapes in it to see all pixelated and grainy image quality finally disappeared on new HDTV, the image quality is very stunning and enjoyment to watch.
Flatscreens struggle with VHS: Period. The sync signal is too unstable for the average flatscreen to lock on to. This creates huge problems for any scaler.
His experiences with your DVD recorder and the Lite-On is exactly the same issue as I pointed out before; a poor quality TV and/or bad choices in the picture settings. The Toshiba TV
still has a scaler, it's either not a very good one or the TVs picture adjustments are set incorrectly for SD sources. Giving the TV a 1080p picture simply bypassed some of those issues.
Unfortunately millions people will face same issues when they bought cheap brand new 4K UHDTVs less than £500 as they don't have 4K upscalers,
Er.... no the won't. Because those 4K TVs will have to have scalers too otherwise they'd be useless with anything except a 4K signal.
only available in very expensive models over £500 has 4K upscalers build-in so they will need to get rid of cheap Blu-ray players and replace it with £150 4K upscaler Blu-ray players to £299 4K upscaler Blu-ray Freeview HD HDD recorders or buy Ultra HD Blu-ray players to watch it in native 4K resolution.
Same issues will still occur with next generation native 8K resolution.
Sorry, but that's complete codswallop too.
