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I don’t think DVDs look bad on a 1080p TV, others that assume they will may be surprised!

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I think too many people remember DVDs but mostly remember them on Interlaced displays.

Or hooked their DVD player to the HDTV with an RCA cable and were disappointed.

On the flipside, if you had a DVD player capable of progressive scan and Component or HDMI-out, it's fine for couch viewing.

That said, there are plenty of DVDs out there (extreme case, single layer DVD with extras on same disc as movie) where the bitrate can show, but that's not a fault of the format.

I am watching DVDs on a 1080p projector to the large wall of my living room. It is a 10y old cheap aliexpress one so it is not the sharpest you can get and it actually makes the DVD enjoyable as it smoothen a bit the whole thing. I don't really know what is at play but I can only say it seems to blur the image in a pleasant "optical way", not like if I was applying a gaussian blur and was watching it on an high dpi screen.

Makes perfect sense; old CRT TVs had the same kind of effect in making low resolutions bearable. (If you think DVD is bad, you'd have loved long-play VHS at around 230p...)

It really depends on the size of the unit I think. When you get over 50", it seems to me you can really tell 480p vs 1080p, especially if you watch lots of 2160p content.

If your TV is under 50", I don't think you'd notice quite so much.

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