[snarkpup]

One question I have is whether it is feasible to do upconversions oneself by playing a standard-def DVD on an upconverting player and viewing the result on a suitable screen. I've tried this a couple of times and the biggest difference is that the upconversion done by my player converts subtitles into jagged, barely readable piles of aliasing artifacts.

My questions is whether the high-end Blu-ray players that cost several hundred bucks more than the one I got do a better job of this.

[Biblical Calvinist]

You’re probably experiencing what is called “Interlacing” which can cause the jagged edges in video..It also happens with sub-titles at times as well..which is why 120 HZ motion correction was created, to help correct this phenomena with sub-titles, in addition to helping to correct motion blurring.

If you have an older High Def tv set; without 120 HZ, then you’ll possibly see artifacting of this nature when watching sub-titles.

Perhaps your dvd player has a switch (found in the settings) that will allow you to change the output display from Interlace to “PROGRESSIVE”. I think many of the newer dvd players do this automatically..but some of the older dvd players have that switch.

I hope this suggestion will help correct this problem.