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hunter

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7. Our Costco Vizio does all right, even with -gasp- old video cassettes.

Thu Jan 14, 2016, 06:49 PM

Jan 2016

Old tapes still look better than they did on our slightly upscale 1990's CRT.

(I don't replace movie tapes in our collection with disks except as I find them in thrift stores...)

Whatever interpolation software they've got in the flatscreen to upscale crappy analog video to HDTV seems to be doing its job. It probably helps too that I bought one of the last super high quality upscale VCRs in a thrift store for $10.

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Our Costco Vizio does all right, even with -gasp- old video cassettes. hunter Jan 2016 #7

OK is OK lol OriginalGeek Jan 2016 #16

Having the aspect ratio set wrong makes me crazy too. hunter Jan 2016 #17

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Some, maybe all of the "smart" stuff spies on you. hunter Jan 2016 #8

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