Hope to hear some excellent suggestions (as always) from this esteemed group. TV is a Sony KDL52XBR5 LCD. HD cable box, Panasonic DVD-S97 standard def DVD player, and an old Sony ES receiver. Cable box and DVD player are connected directly to the TV via HDMI, because the old receiver doesn't have any video processing. The dilemma is this--HD channels look spectacular, standard def channels look very average, and some DVDs look great, but others, terrible. For example, Raiders of the Lost Ark looks terrible, but Cars looks great. The Panny DVD player outputs 720P. I wondered perhaps if the HDMI cable was bad, but then I couldn't explain some movies looking great. So, there are several questions:
1. Any guesses why some movies look great and others not so much?
2. What would you change to improve video performance? Had my heart set on replacing the Sony receiver with a Denon AVR-3808ci, but I read a review that didn't care much for the video processing provided by the Faroujda chip. 5803 is a little out of the budget. I would consider a Blu-ray player that upconverts standard redbook DVDs, but am still on the fence. Perhaps an outboard scaler? Immediate priority is improving movie viewing, and budget is about 2K or less. As always, I appreciate and welcome all responses.
1. Any guesses why some movies look great and others not so much?
2. What would you change to improve video performance? Had my heart set on replacing the Sony receiver with a Denon AVR-3808ci, but I read a review that didn't care much for the video processing provided by the Faroujda chip. 5803 is a little out of the budget. I would consider a Blu-ray player that upconverts standard redbook DVDs, but am still on the fence. Perhaps an outboard scaler? Immediate priority is improving movie viewing, and budget is about 2K or less. As always, I appreciate and welcome all responses.
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