Is a standard dvd picture/sound improved when played in ps3?

Question

the ps3 is equiped with blu-ray and can play standard dvd's thats a well known fact by now. however, does playing a standard dvd in the ps3 improve it in anyway (picture/sound quality), or will it still seem like its being played in a standard dvd player?

Answer 1

As with regular blu-ray players, the PS3 should upscale the quality of your DVDs...slightly. However, I'm fairly certain the improvements would be so minute that you wouldn't notice unless you have a trained eye for those sorts of things. Certainly it won't make your DVDs look/sound like blu-ray quality.

Answer 2

No, not at all.

Use a Blu-ray version of the same movie and of course you will see a massive difference.

Answer 3

When I play regular DVDs on my PS3, the picture is equivalent to similarly priced up-converting DVD players.  (At least to my 5 year oldPioneer Elite player).  Better then the new breed of cheap up-converting DVD players.

But up-converted DVDs do not hot a candle to Blu-Ray!

Answer 4

Yes it will noticeably improve the picture quality of your standard dvds.  If your PS3 is connected to a HDTV via HDMI it will send up to a 1080p signal, even though regular dvds are only in 480p.  When you send your tv a digital signal with the HDMI it's one less digital to analog - analog to digital conversion it has to make.