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stumped · 12-12-2016, 10:27 AM

You are making a huge assumption as to where the upscalcing is done. Can you back that up with facts?
With SD, the Amazon or Netflix server sends 70x480 pixels, that is the meaning of SD.
For that to map to a screen that has more pixels, I would expect the tablet OS to assign the task to an on-board graphics chip, aka hardware rendering, wherever possible.
Nothing to do with Amazon code. Netflix on my ten inch lenovo looked crap also.

If you use MX player, you can force HW or SW decoding. Software takes more cpu but looks exactly the same to my eyes

In your post you seem to want to have it both ways, you blame amazon for doing it badly, praise Apple for doing it well.only one of the two is managing the task.

We could Google Android upscaling ?

12-12-2016, 10:27 AM	#163
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	You are making a huge assumption as to where the upscalcing is done. Can you back that up with facts? With SD, the Amazon or Netflix server sends 70x480 pixels, that is the meaning of SD. For that to map to a screen that has more pixels, I would expect the tablet OS to assign the task to an on-board graphics chip, aka hardware rendering, wherever possible. Nothing to do with Amazon code. Netflix on my ten inch lenovo looked crap also. If you use MX player, you can force HW or SW decoding. Software takes more cpu but looks exactly the same to my eyes In your post you seem to want to have it both ways, you blame amazon for doing it badly, praise Apple for doing it well.only one of the two is managing the task. We could Google Android upscaling ? Last edited by stumped; 12-12-2016 at 10:31 AM.