Questions about DVD&TV setup

[MacBH928]

Q1) I have DVDs that I play on my Playstation 3 and the picture looks amazing. I think it looks better than some HD streams from subscriptions services. I believe the PS3 upscales it, it can't look that good at SD quality. I have another Samsung BD player but the image quality is not so good, you can see the artifacts. I was assuming all BD players (including PS3) upscales video equally.

Are some players/TVs do better job at upscaling than others? How can we know which ones are the better ones? I assumed all upscaling worked the same way.

Q2) My TV settings have different Picture settings like Vivid, Game, Cinema...etc . They looks significantly different. Some give more vibrant and colorful image more on the blue-er side, other gives a more brown/grey tint to it. How do I know which should I set the picture to?

I want the picture that the director intended for me to see the movie as.

There are also so many other options that I do not know which to choose like MPEG Noise reduction and Smoothing and even 3D sound with 3 settings: low-medium-high .

 

[priitv8]

To your second question - you should calibrate your screen and forget about the various picture modes.
There are many descriptions available, this is one of them:
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35322
PS to do it properly you’ll need a colorimeter device and calibration software. Or let a professional do it as a service.

 

[BODYBUILDERPAUL]

Yep yep yep - different brands are known for different quality of upscales. SONY being one of the best when it comes to upscaling DVD.
HOWEVER, NO PERSON in the UK or Europe should be using DVD. It's truly inaccurate. In order to allow for 25fps, the audio is speeded up to 4%. THAT'S HUGE!!!
It's horrific if you play a DVD film and the iTunes HD film side by side. The voices are truly different. It's a disgrace in 2019. I can't believe that this is allowed especially when you constantly hear the sentence 'How the Director intended or How Hollywood intended'. I guess the old 25fps was for the last century with the horrible CRT TVs - buzzing & flickering away! The said, it is a very very traditional customer who buys these old discs - they don't know any better I guess.

When it comes to media box / streamers, the Apple TV 4K has an exceptional quality upscaler.

On a side line - interesting today regarding the new 'Hollywood' mode that is being introduced by Hollywood with LG, Vizio & Panasonic which will turn off motion smoothing, processing etc & allow the correct frame rate.

 

[MacBH928]

To your second question - you should calibrate your screen and forget about the various picture modes.
There are many descriptions available, this is one of them:
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35322
PS to do it properly you’ll need a colorimeter device and calibration software. Or let a professional do it as a service.

thanks for the tip, this sounds like a lot of work and money for someone who just wants to watch a movie. this should be done by default by the manufacturer