UP Conversion DVD players
 

is it worth it?

They arent priced that much either.

If you dont know what it is:

its a dvd player that converts your movie to HD quality and plays it in that format.

I believe upconverting doubles the lines of resolution to fill the screen. It's worth it if you plan to play DVD's on an HDTV.

for the price i might as well. With over 2000 dvd's combined between my fiancee and I, it should be.

I had the Zenith 1080i Upconversion DVD player, it was alright.

But then I got the Oppo 1080P upconversion one, it's a night a day. I've been enjoying every bit of it. Totally worth it if you ask me.

I was looking at an LG branded one. Very sleek in design about looks like its about half an inch in height.

I never really understood up converting DVD players.

DVDs are shot with 480 horizontal lines, and you can't just add lines. It just scales it to a higher resolution.

For example, if you have a 128kbps mp3, and you re-encode it to 320kbps, it isn't going to sound any better. You can't add data where it doesn't already exist.

I usually just let my DVD player play on 480p on my old 30" CRT HDTV.

I know that most new TVs up converts any source that gets thrown at it to its native resolution automatically. So if you are running a 1080p setup, you are viewing the DVD at 1080p. I would personally let the TV do the up converting instead of throwing another layer of processing between the source material and the output.

What kind of TV do you have?

Also Oppo makes the best DVD Players on the market now.

http://www.oppodigital.com/?partner=111

If you have a 1080P TV check out the HD DVD Players. Simply Amazing PQ.

all your logic is spot on. The only part that I think you aren't aware of is that a lot of the high end upscaling DVD players actually have better video processing then the TV. Therefore, letting the DVD player do the upscaling instead of the TV can result in noticeable improvements.

This isn't true for all TV's. If you have a super high end TV (like a Pioneer Elite) then letting your TV do the upscaling is probably best. But for most people who have a mid level TV buying a Good upscaling DVD player is worth it.

Oppo upconverting players > *