If I have a downloaded copy of a movie, roughly 700mb, can I use Handbrake to upscale the quality at all? The movie plays fine on my iMac, but when I play it on my LCD tv, the quality is nowhere near the same. I ended up getting a WD TV from my job here for $40, and i use it as a media center on my tv. The movies that I ripped from my dvd collection to my HD via HB are fine, but these dloaded ones are not as good. Thoughts?
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That's what's going to happen with downloaded moves. They're programmed to be 700 mb so people can burn them to a CD, when the average movie ripped via handbrake with no restrictions is usually over twice that. Don't expect good quality from downloaded movies, and no - you can't upscale it and make it look better. It doesn't work like that unfortunately.
I didnt think so, but there is no wrong in asking. I have about 160 movies that are about 700mb, so I have to deal with it. I just started ripping my DVDs (finished #9 of 300), so I have a lot of work ahead of me 
Trust me, I do understand. And I also went through my collection of DVDs, similar in size actually, and ripped, encoded, and tagged all of them. 3 times. Once, then the hard drive died and I did it a second time, then I decided to go back and redo it all at higher quality and with chapter markers, which previously hadn't been retained when tagging.
I feel your pain. Believe me.
I feel your pain. Believe me.
um, I have never seen a dvd that is only 700 mb. and yes, hb cannot make something of nothing.
I was referring to the number of DVDs he said he had, not the size of the files. I already specified that DVDs don't rip at 700 MB.