The problem is you were assuming other humans wouldn't see a difference just because you didn't see it yourself, guess who's the one with the broad brush... Why would I upconvert if I haven't done hours of comparisons? I do the same with audio, if I don't hear a difference, I remove the tweak. If I have a tweak that I don't yet know if it makes a difference, I remove it, I don't want it to be in my system if I don't know what it does.
I don't think you understood what I was saying about upconversion. The thing isn't that there is no difference, the thing is that you're just anti-aliasing the source when you upconvert it, or applying some other pixel-averaging algorithm. I have no idea why you would do "hours of comparisons" with the video. If you're scaling it up, you might as well anti-alias the picture.
A lot of free video players can do the exact same thing that Video Enhancer does - namely, apply what is essentially an AA pass to the whole picture. You can download players that allow quite precise control over their deblocking and upscaling filters, to balance the sharpness of viewing the source at its native size with the blurriness created by the filters.
If you really want to maintain the sharpness of the video, you might want to consider just displaying the unscaled video in your display (most video players will allow this). It won't use the full display, but if you're really using a 1080p source you'll fill about 75% of the screen. It won't look blocky like upscaled (but not filtered) video, and it won't look blurry like upscaled and filtered video.
What are you viewing, anyway, regular DVDs? You got an HD-DVD or a Blu-Ray hooked up?
Nowhere did I say "there is no difference." However, if you're sitting back far enough
your eye cannot physically discern a difference! It isn't a matter of personal preference anymore, it's a function of maximum human visual accuity, display technology, pixel density, and simple mathematics.
Course, if you're upconverting a standard DVD to your display resolution, you'd have to be back pretty far. If you were using a source actually originally stored at 1080p you'd probably stop seeing a distinct difference... I dunno, maybe beyond 6-10 feet or so.
Finally, if you're going to go so far as to say that video enhancer actually
adds detail to the original picture, then you're full of crap and don't know what you're talking about.
I don't doubt that many of your tweaks adjust the sound of your system, and I'm sure you adjust it to your preference. I think you're being silly for spending so much money on your "tweaks." I think a lot of this process is so ultimately subjective that you could obtain the same results by spending a couple thousand on decent upper mid-end consumer gear and just relaxing and listening to the music rather than obsessing about the nuance of the sound, but I know this is about the process of tweaking to you, and you consider it money well spent. Whatever, that's your business.
What I do doubt are things like your claims that a power cable can measurably alter the sound of your stereo system. Given my knowledge of how the system works and produces sound, those claims sound highly dubious.
All I asked was that you explain how it works, in non-amibiguous technical terms.
