Upscaling to 1080 via component - DVD players

[Doc Holliday]

Hi folks,

Just wanted to know if there is any DVD player available in India that can upscale to 1080 via components.

I know there is this

NeoDigits | HELIOS Network High Definition Divx Streaming Media DVD Player

and Oppo OPDV971H

Does the Samsung DVD-HD860 upscale via component?

SAMSUNG's Digital World - Hype Vision | DVD-HD860

I was thinking of getting the Philips 29PT8836/94

29PT8836/94 Pixel Plus TV (conventional) TV Philips

But I am getting second thoughts with the HDTV part of it. Should I rather wait a few more months and wait for new products to launch and the LCD prices to drop? How well do the LCD TVs match up with the CRTs?

Thanks!

 

[arrow055]

If you want a tv only for HD, better get a widescreen.The HD crt tv you mentioned is pretty good and would easily beat an lcd when it comes to color reproduction but it's still not widescreen which means there is a lot of imformation not being presented to you since it has 4:3 aspect ratio and HD contents are always in widescreen.So there will always be some loss of data when you view widescreen content on a non-widescreen tv. Philips do sell a widescreen 32 inch crt model.Check out if that's available in india or you are better off getting one of those lcds that does 720p.1080p support is great but if i have to choose between a widescreen that only does 720p and a 1080p display with 4:3 aspect ratio i would stick with the 720p display.

Now coming to the second part, i don't think that player can upscale to 1080p via component.It can do that only via HDMI. The only device available in india (that i know of ) that can upscale dvds via component is the xbox360.

 

[Nikhil]

The Samsung DVD player....

Does that convert regular DVDs to HD ?? I dont think so, but advice would be appreciated.

And if it does not do that, then it means, it plays regular HD stuff.... where do I get High Definition DVDs ??

Or is my only option to download HD movies from the net and burn a DVD-Video and play them ??

@Doc Holiday --- Sorry for asking questions in your thread, but I have had such doubts for ages....just been too lazy to make a new thread

Hope you dont mind

 

[Doc Holliday]

If you want a tv only for HD, better get a widescreen.The HD crt tv you mentioned is pretty good and would easily beat an lcd when it comes to color reproduction but it's still not widescreen which means there is a lot of imformation not being presented to you since it has 4:3 aspect ratio and HD contents are always in widescreen.So there will always be some loss of data when you view widescreen content on a non-widescreen tv. Philips do sell a widescreen 32 inch crt model.Check out if that's available in india or you are better off getting one of those lcds that does 720p.1080p support is great but if i have to choose between a widescreen that only does 720p and a 1080p display with 4:3 aspect ratio i would stick with the 720p display.

Well, I don't want my TV only for HD, but surely by the way things are going that seems to be the future and I don't think I am going to buy TVs every year or two. I have a Samsung 940BW for my PC and I enjoy watching movies on them - widescreen is really the thing for movies and HD. Problem is budget - I think with a budget (below 25K), this TV seems to be a good buy - but only if - if - one could get a DVD player like the Oppo that could upscale DVDs to 1080; it would make the buy "complete." Of course, as and when we are into HD-DVD, I am sure it will be time to buy another TV and possibly there will be HDTV2? With an even higher resolution? Who knows.

Now coming to the second part, i don't think that player can upscale to 1080p via component.It can do that only via HDMI. The only device available in india (that i know of ) that can upscale dvds via component is the xbox360.

The Xbox, does it upscale all output via component? Or only for games?

@Doc Holiday --- Sorry for asking questions in your thread, but I have had such doubts for ages....just been too lazy to make a new thread

Hope you dont mind

Not at all - you enliven this thread.