19th November 2013, 11:27 PM
Upscaling, ultimately, doesn't really improve anything. The DVD is still displaying images at "standard" resolution, the pixels are only being "doubled" to make the TV display it as a 1080 HD image. No real improvement happens there. Essentially "upscaling" doesn't improve an image like some CSI "enhance" program that magically draws out a license plate number from an original image that was far too blurry to derive specific letters from. Bluray is actually using image stock at 1080, recaptured from the original film in most cases, so you're actually getting an HD image.
Now as it happens, Netflix is now streaming HD content. That'll be what you're seeing. Basically, if you want to play movies in HD, you need an HD source, and that's either bluray or a digital download. No DVDs contain HD video.
I should warn you, Silent Hill 5 is generally panned by critics and fans alike. One big mistake they made was using the Unreal game engine, so the game looks like every other game, far too glossy and shiny for a Silent Hill game. I would recommend Ni No Kuni, the Uncharted series, The Last of Us, and the Batman games, for starters. There's also a massive pileup of surprisingly awesome "indie" games just waiting to be snatched up for really low prices, but most of these are also on the PC and really don't require a very powerful machine.
Now as it happens, Netflix is now streaming HD content. That'll be what you're seeing. Basically, if you want to play movies in HD, you need an HD source, and that's either bluray or a digital download. No DVDs contain HD video.
I should warn you, Silent Hill 5 is generally panned by critics and fans alike. One big mistake they made was using the Unreal game engine, so the game looks like every other game, far too glossy and shiny for a Silent Hill game. I would recommend Ni No Kuni, the Uncharted series, The Last of Us, and the Batman games, for starters. There's also a massive pileup of surprisingly awesome "indie" games just waiting to be snatched up for really low prices, but most of these are also on the PC and really don't require a very powerful machine.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)