Just wondering...............

You can buy freeview boxes and dvd players with Upscaling now........but instead of buying new players etc with the upscaling in.....can you buy an upscaling box...........where you plug the out signal from a sky/freeview/dvd player and that upscales the signal???

Or is that a stupid idea...........

Think Maplins got them for £199.
No idea how good they are, you can easily pay £1k for 1/2 decent one.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98004&criteria=scaler&doy=25m7

maybe have a nose at AVForums.. thinking of getting one myself, just not nosed much into it yet
http://www.avforums.com/forums/search.php?searchid=9769836

Just remembered about this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace/

Oh right, so they do exist then!! Thought it was a new idea id thought of as I didnt know they existed!

Most HD TVs have them built in as well. They will up-scale any incoming signal so that it looks ok on the screen, it boils down how good you want it to look.

Didnt know that either!! Ive got a SAMSUNG LE40R87BDX tv, so will have to check if that has upscaling or not on it.