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2018-01-15, 16:49
(This post was last modified: 2018-01-15, 16:50 by mamachan.)
Which is the best box to upscale from 720/1080p to 4K?
- Himedia Q5/Q10
- Zidoo X9S/X10
- Nvidia Shield
- Minix U9-H
- Apple TV 4K
- ...... others
From 0 to 200€ (max)
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The latest 4K TVs tend to do a better job at upscaling videos than Kodi can do. It's that simple.
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2018-01-15, 22:14
(This post was last modified: 2018-01-15, 22:15 by noggin.)
In general (but not in all cases) - most decent UHD TVs upscale pretty well, and better than some (but not all) external media player hardware, and some PC solutions.
Obviously not all media player solutions upscale equally - particularly as some are limited to 2160/30p output (which is useless for upscaling 1080/50i, 1080/59.94i, 720/50p, 720/59.94p, 480/59.94i/p and 576/50i/p content - such as live/recorded TV and DVD/Blu-ray content of interlaced native material). These are typically devices with HDMI 1.4 output rather than HDMI 2.0.
I've read a lot of favourable reports about the ATV 4K doing a good job of upscaling, and the nVidia Shield not.
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If prefering upscale to 4K over other things (such as streaming, uhd disk ), then consider HTPC with madVR, which gives best video quality.