Hey thanks again for the response,
This DVD of CSI Miami has better resolution than watching NCIS in HD, as we know, not all HD shows look the same.
See what happened is, all I been watching for 3 years is HD channels other than the news, I have the HD DVR as well.
So about a year ago I tried to salvage my DVD's by using this player & it wasn't doing much other than making the picture tighter because of the HDMI.
So I ignored DVD, my wife was the only one using it, that is why this technology was unknown to me until last night. When she bought the CSI Miami for me, I was impressed, to me it appears to be the missing link that this upscale DVD player needed.
As far as what you said about it not adding more pixels, , I only learned of this last night, you're right about it not adding or releasing any extra pixels, but it's really kind of the same thing, like you said.
The article at
http://www.audiolinks.nl/anamorphic/anamorphic.htm
stated something to effect of when anamorphic is played on regular 4.3, it is cutting back on the pixels that are there.
It said
"In other words, one-half of the pixels would contain the image and 50% would contain no useful information – just black pixels for the matte. So the DVD frame which could hold 345,600 pixels of information only 175,000 pixels are being used! The wasted pixels results in lost resolution which manifests itself as less sharp, less detailed images."
..... "
The anamorphic DVD process is great for capturing the full resolution and clarity of the original image"
OK...
Now, what I just did,
I have the same TV, the 50 inch we 655 in the living with the Denon HDMI monster connection ... & the 42 inch we655 in the bedroom with the Sony in Progressive scan component monster connection.
Using the same scenes from the same anamorphic DVD.
Because the Denon was set to 720 I was unable to go into the normal mode with my TV's stretch wide feature, where the black barn doors are on the side, that shows, as we know a true 720 output.
I was able to go into that mode with the TV's stretch feature using the Sony 480 Progressive scan.
Detail was better with the Denon, I look at their faces from the same scenes, the pours were clearer & detailed on the Denon, such as a stubby beard, individual dots can be seen better, and they were less detailed & more flushed on the Sony.
Most of all the Sony looked grainier. Not that HD tightness. Yea this Denon is an improvement with anamorphic.
As I said, this anamorphic DVD in the Denon looked better than the 1080 broadcast of NCIS, but I can not say the same when I viewed the anamorphic DVD on the Sony.
If anyone thinks there is not try the Denon with this type of set up. Again, this is HD, I don't believe anyone who knows a HD picture that will look at this and argue with me if I say this is my HD DVR.
My best guess is that the Faroudja chip in the Denon is doing it's job, at least with anamorphic DVD.