Samsung BD-Wise and Upscaling

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I've recently taken delivery of a Samsung C5900 Bluray player (it was free from the Manchester Show, woop woop) to complement my Samsung UE40C8000 LED TV. It was easy to set up, but as a bit of a home cinema newbie I'm confused about one of the features.

Samsung brag about the BD-Wise support on the box and on their website. According to the manual it allows a Samsung TV and a Samsung Blu ray player to communicate over HDMI to set the optimum resolution of the TV fron the disc.

I played with this a bit and all it seems to do is set the TV resolution to 720 × 576 instead of 1080p when playing a DVD.

Blu rays works fine with it on, but I can get a much better DVD picture by disabling BD-Wise and forcing the player to always play at 1080p, this gives a very clear upscaled picture.

My question is is this BD-Wise a pointless technology that sets the resolution of the TV to the native resolution of the disc, thus preventing any upscaling or have I missed something?

For the moment I think I'll just leave it disabled and set up my picture manually!

 

[Anonymous]

I think it all depends on how good the TV is at upscalling as setting it to the default level means the TV does the upscalling and I find my TV does a much better job that my amp and media players

 

[Anonymous]

That does make a lot of sense now you mention it, the TV will display the resolution of the signal it is receiving. I'd assume the Samsung UE40C8000 should be a lot better at upscaling than the low end Blu Ray player, but the picture defintely seems better if I force the Blu Ray to output 1080p (thus upscaling in the player).

I guess I need to fiddle with the upscaling settings on the TV to see if I can improve the picture settings? Unfortunately it's not as simple of "upscaling on!". Seems to be lot of settings about "MPEG Noise filtering" etc...

Ah well...