I recently acquired a Panasonic DMR-EZ49V at a charity shop. I got it mainly for transferring VHS tapes to DVD. It also had an SVideo port on it and I had never tried the output from my DVL-919. I was surprised to find that it looked quite a bit sharper than my Kramer VP-773A. I also tried the composite port on the Panasonic and that looked sharper too. I'll post some images here as a comparison, but it seems that the Kramer is softening the image somewhat, maybe it's a setting I have on it?
I can't figure out how to post images directly to this post. Here is a drop box where I have posted 3 images of the same image and the videos as well.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t7ejgc88 ... 49peq&dl=0Kramer VP-773A:
Kramer (480P) -> Onkyo NR626 (1080P) -> lG-C1
Settings:
PROCESS -
Deinterlacing - Method - Motion Adaptive
Deinterlacing - Sync - Current Field
Film Mode -Follow Input
Diagonal Correction - 000
MD Sensitivity - Level 3
Picture -Dither - Mode 0
Panasonic SVideo and Composite:
The Panasonic DMR-EZ49V is set to 1080p so is likely doing all the upscaling and deinterlacing. I have tried to read the service manual to figure out what chip it is using to do this but had no luck, I found it too confusing.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Maybe it's just that the upscaling that the onkyo uses is just not that good?