What Happens When a Blu-Ray Player “Upscales” a DVD?

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I have a pretty large DVD and Blu-Ray collection, and I play all of them with a Blu-Ray player. When I play my DVDs on there, they look nice and sharp, definitely not Blu-Ray quality but still very nice, while when I play an uncompressed DVD rip on VLC Media Player it looks, well, like a DVD. I know my Blu-Ray player isn’t actually adding any detail, and it doesn’t have that weird artificial sharpness, so what is it doing?

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