what's better?
i'm getting a bit sick of xbmc as it's really dodgy when playing back dvds - from very laggy remote operation to non-compatibility with certain films, and problems when rewinding and skipping - just a general rubbishness compared with the actual xbox dash (which doesn't upscale of course). i'm running v1.0. i had v2.0 but didn't notice anything different so just stayed with 1.0.
although having said that, xbmc does upscale, and i can play all region dvds, and it does a fine job of playing pal dvds in 60hz.
as for the 360, mine is being replaced by MS at the moment (they're taking their sweet time with it aswell
), and i know it upscales dvds when played over vga (dunno about component but i don't use it anyway so not fussed) but is it just the 360's scaler resizing it or does it actually perform some magic on the picture?
as for an upscaling dvd player, are there any cheap ones that are half-decent, preferably multi-region (i don't really mind though as i only have a few r1 dvds and can just use xbmc for them), and with vga or hdmi output? also, how well do they handle pal dvds - do they upscale them AND adjust the frame rate properly?
i've been looking at the oppo ones which seem quite nice...
i'm getting a bit sick of xbmc as it's really dodgy when playing back dvds - from very laggy remote operation to non-compatibility with certain films, and problems when rewinding and skipping - just a general rubbishness compared with the actual xbox dash (which doesn't upscale of course). i'm running v1.0. i had v2.0 but didn't notice anything different so just stayed with 1.0.
although having said that, xbmc does upscale, and i can play all region dvds, and it does a fine job of playing pal dvds in 60hz.
as for the 360, mine is being replaced by MS at the moment (they're taking their sweet time with it aswell
), and i know it upscales dvds when played over vga (dunno about component but i don't use it anyway so not fussed) but is it just the 360's scaler resizing it or does it actually perform some magic on the picture?as for an upscaling dvd player, are there any cheap ones that are half-decent, preferably multi-region (i don't really mind though as i only have a few r1 dvds and can just use xbmc for them), and with vga or hdmi output? also, how well do they handle pal dvds - do they upscale them AND adjust the frame rate properly?
i've been looking at the oppo ones which seem quite nice...
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