Is in attendance a big difference between a DVD upconverter and a HD DVD Player?
What is best to jump with? Would I gain the same point and spend much less by only just purchasing an upconverter rather than an HD DVD player?
Answers: Yes
HD DVD have many advantages over any upconverting DVD player. Sound Quality for one.
Even if you don't hold a surround processor that will decode the spanking new HD DTS or the new Dolby Digital HD. I'm sure you'll be thrilled you have it once you draw from one.
It plays all your DVD, compact disc. I know the LG won't play a CD. Can you believe I can't play a disc after paying $1100.00 for this unit six months ago. Oh ably.
If I had it to do over I would buy a HD=DVD player and a Bul-Ray player separately.
You said, "I be told that the HD DVD player can upconvert regular DVDs to HD quality."
Unfortunately you be told wrong. Upconverter DVD players display better picture than progressive or regular DVD players, but they hardly compare to HD DVD aspect.
All of this information is under the assumption that you hold a HD capable TV.
HD DVD players are also upconverting DVD players; however upconverted DVD is lone pseudo HD. That said, done right (on a good upconverter) the picture can be much better than plain vanilla DVD (although still inferior to true HD DVD). The issue is relative aspect difference and the price to obtain it.
I in recent times answered a very similar sound out, so rather than repeat much of the info. enjoy a look at the link (and read the article referenced nearby on why an upscaling player can be beneficial).
I have an HD-A2 and I use it above all as an upscaling DVD player for my 720p projector and 110" screen (I see little benefit to HD DVDs, at lowest not enough to be worth the glorious cost except for a few disks which would truely benefit from HD (for me disk rental isn't a viable option)). I therefore consider my HD-A2 to be a pious upscaling DVD player that will also play HD DVDs for the few times I want to bother. To me it's worth the relatively small price premium over a good upscaling non-HD DVD player (e.g. Oppo 981, $229) simply to hold the ability to play HD DVDs if I want to. Sure the price may be much more than a cheap upscaling player ... but those don't work in good health (see the article I referenced earlier) and are a waste of money.
Anyway depending what you compensated (e.g. the $99 sale price or the $300 regular price) it is more or smaller number of a bargain. If I be buying today I'd consider the Venture model available in the US at WalMart for $197. It's a rebranded Toshiba HD-A3.
Hope this help.
Upscaling does not change the amount of picture information you see. DVD max output is 480 x 720 pixels (300,000 approximately) HD-DVD and Blu-Ray max output is 1080 x 1920 pixels. (2,067,000) That's a 7 times alteration in picture detail!
If you hold a 1080p television, I would not consider the HD-A2 or HD-A3 people of DVD players. They are only 1080i or 720p.
If AGB90's projector is true 720p, he should be seeing 720 x 1200 pixels, three times better than an upscaled DVD. (about 1,000,000 pixels) I don't appreciate why he isn't more impressed on something as large as a 110" peak. What I mean is, the larger the viewing nouns, the more valuable supplementary detail becomes. His answer is subjective to some extent and I unquestionably respect his opinion.
AudioTech is right on the money beside the sound improvements. He get a thumbs up from me.
I like the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD/DVD player by LG. It's too discouraging CDs won't play on it but they probably ran out of room and couldn't fit another laser diode assembly inside. If I have the LG, I would probably buy a cheap computer instead of a CD player and rip adjectives my CDs to FLAC or 330 bps MP3. It's far more convenient than messing with the CDs.
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