shipdriver
AK Legionary
Going from DVD (upscaled or not) to Blu-Ray I liken to putting on glasses. Of course, I didn't think there was as big of a difference until I was prescribed glasses for the first time. Then wow!That's what I thought, too. But you have to figure that when you play a DVD, where virtually all Zone 1 disks are formatted to display a picture at 480 lines of resolution, you're relying on a chip to interpolate what information should be displayed on the other 600 lines of your 1080 (p or i) display. Some DVD players do this better than others (my little Oppo DV-980H does a much better job of upscaling video to 1080p than my Panasonic BluRay player (mine's a pretty low-end BDP).
Upscaled DVD images can be as smooth, but never as detailed, as Blu-Ray, because the detail isn't actually there.