Buy a new HDMI DVD Player or wait for HD DVD

[MorphineChild]

I just purchased a new plasma and want some opinions on what to do about a DVD player. I currently have a non progressive scan DVD player that works good and does everything I need it to do. Will progressive scan do much for me? Or should I wait for an HD dvd player to come down in price. I see the blue ray are around $1k which is way too much for me, I expect in a couple years they will be done to a somewhat affordable range. Should I wait or will a progressive scan HDMI dvd player do me good?

If so what brands/models should I look into, not looking to spend over $200

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: MorphineChild
I just purchased a new plasma and want some opinions on what to do about a DVD player. I currently have a non progressive scan DVD player that works good and does everything I need it to do. Will progressive scan do much for me? Or should I wait for an HD dvd player to come down in price. I see the blue ray are around $1k which is way too much for me, I expect in a couple years they will be done to a somewhat affordable range. Should I wait or will a progressive scan HDMI dvd player do me good?

If so what brands/models should I look into, not looking to spend over $200

Just get that Philips model for around $60, especially if you need to disable region encoding. You'd be crazy to spend > 3K on a tv and then feed it an interlaced signal.

 

[LukFilm]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: MorphineChild
I just purchased a new plasma and want some opinions on what to do about a DVD player. I currently have a non progressive scan DVD player that works good and does everything I need it to do. Will progressive scan do much for me? Or should I wait for an HD dvd player to come down in price. I see the blue ray are around $1k which is way too much for me, I expect in a couple years they will be done to a somewhat affordable range. Should I wait or will a progressive scan HDMI dvd player do me good?

If so what brands/models should I look into, not looking to spend over $200

You'd be crazy to spend > 3K on a tv and then feed it an interlaced signal.

NOT SO. His TV will do upconverting on its own, so it he has his DVD player do the upconverting, his TV will further upconvert and downconvert it to his TV's native resolution resulting in artifacts due to unnecessary deinterlacing. Therefore, the BEST thing to do is to get Oppo 970HD DVD player for $150 which will feed his TV 480i signal via HDMI resulting in just ONE upconversion = better picture.

 

[Blayze]

I would either get the Oppo OPDV971H (its DVI, but Oppo sends a DVI to HDMI cable with it) or the new Oppo DV-970HD. However if you can wait a few months Oppo is releasing a newer version of the 971 that is supposed to have HDMI. I've heard that the 970 has some underscan issues right now, that are going to be fixed in some new firmware.

Both of these do Pal to NTSC and can be made Region Free if you need to play other regions.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: LukFilm

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: MorphineChild
I just purchased a new plasma and want some opinions on what to do about a DVD player. I currently have a non progressive scan DVD player that works good and does everything I need it to do. Will progressive scan do much for me? Or should I wait for an HD dvd player to come down in price. I see the blue ray are around $1k which is way too much for me, I expect in a couple years they will be done to a somewhat affordable range. Should I wait or will a progressive scan HDMI dvd player do me good?

If so what brands/models should I look into, not looking to spend over $200

You'd be crazy to spend > 3K on a tv and then feed it an interlaced signal.

NOT SO. His TV will do upconverting on its own, so it he has his DVD player do the upconverting, his TV will further upconvert and downconvert it to his TV's native resolution resulting in artifacts due to unnecessary deinterlacing. Therefore, the BEST thing to do is to get Oppo 970HD DVD player for $150 which will feed his TV 480i signal via HDMI resulting in just ONE upconversion = better picture.

Unless his TV sucks at scalling it.

Chances are there will be little loss of image quality even from the second conversion. He'll be plenty happy with the image quality he gets out of a cheap up-converting DVD player.

I would pass on getting a stand-alone HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player at this time.

 

[EngenZerO]

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[MorphineChild]

Thanks I am definately leaning towards the Oppo, never heard of them before but at avsforum they seem to be getting good reviews. I was not considering buying a $1k blu-ray now. I think I will see how my current one looks and probably end up ordering the Oppo for $150.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: LukFilm
NOT SO. His TV will do upconverting on its own, so it he has his DVD player do the upconverting, his TV will further upconvert and downconvert it to his TV's native resolution resulting in artifacts due to unnecessary deinterlacing. Therefore, the BEST thing to do is to get Oppo 970HD DVD player for $150 which will feed his TV 480i signal via HDMI resulting in just ONE upconversion = better picture.

Isn?t DVD progressive by nature? A Non-progressive DVD player would be throwing away 1/2 the resolution that his new Plasma has the ability to display. That's my understanding anyway. Feel free to correct me. I'm sure a HDTV up converting DVD player is an even better option but I was just suggesting a $60 solution which I think would make a very noticeable difference.

I know I could see a clear difference switching between progressive and interlaced outputs using that Philips DVD and a 50? Panasonic plasma.