I am looking into switching toi the HD receiver from DirectTV - seems like a no brainer with the current offer.... but I am curious about some of the capabilities...

Does the DirectTV receiver perform upscaling of HD content on the HDMI output? How about on the component output? Can I have all conent pushed to my HD-LCD at 1080i?


How about for regular, non-HD, content - will the HD receiver deinterlace that and upscale it? My understanding is that DirectTV uses mpeg2 or mpeg4 encoding, right? So the regular broadcast channels should be 480p (mpeg encoders don't work well with interlaced images) and they must perform the interlacing in the receiver.... so do they pass the 480P signal to the component/HDMI ports?

Thanks