so we have this 50 inch panasonic plasma.....almost 2 years old. im pretty sure it doesnt have hdmi ports and our A/V reciever doesnt either. so if we get an HD-DVD player is HDMI necessary? or can component do 1080p. i would hate to have to buy a new tv already also, what is upconverting? does it take your SD DVDs and make them HD? thanks
a 50" Plasma that is two years old? AND does 1080P?? that musta cost a bundle how sure are you about it handling 1080P? I am not aware right off hand that there were any sets that handled that two years ago. THat is the newest and hottest feature on current hdtvs.
Check to be certain about your ports. There's a chance you might have DVI if there's no HDMI. Also double check about the 1080p vs 1080i. Upconverting really just outputs the full resolution on the DVD (usually 720×480). Normal players simply output in standard TV resolution, regardless of the disc. Evan
Don't call us NERDS and wreck yourself. Check your self before you WRECK yourself. We're nerds, allright... "lol" Give us the model number, dumbass. Rockets2K, you should have asked: "Are you sure you're not really a NERD? Check again, please. It may be 1080i, you dumbass."
dvi: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/DVI_Connector.jpg/800px-DVI_Connector.jpg hdmi: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...High_Definition_Multimedia_Interface_Plug.jpg they'll both do 1080p... but like others have said, if it's 2 years old, it's probably a 1080i set.
1. no your TV doesnt do 1080p or 1080i, its something like 1024x768.. however, it looks great and is 1080i and 720p compatible 2. HD DVD works fine under component. Thats what im using 3. Upconverting is matching your TVs resolution. its the samething if you had a photo taken with a crap camera and u put it on your nice computer monitor. its not going to look that much better, but it will look better. no it wont look as good as HD. heres an article: The Benefits of Upconversion After deinterlacing, the Standard Definition DVD video must then be scaled (or "upconverted") to the higher resolution of the HD display. The standard DVD resolution is 720x480 pixels, or 345,600 pixels in each frame. The 720p HD resolution is 1280x720, and the 1080i HD resolution is 1920x1080. In order to produce an HD video signal suitable to be displayed on an HDTV with the higher resolution and best picture quality, an upconverting DVD player must scale up the video frames. Scaling involves creating new pixels by selectively copying pieces of the surrounding pixels using various mathematical techniques to interpolate what the video signal would look like at a different resolution. A good upconverting DVD player scales the DVD video using fast processing electronics and intelligent algorithms. It can detect and compensate for motion, scene transitions, foreground and background objects, and noise from video in real time and handle each situation intelligently. The scaled-up video is rich in detail, with little or no visible artifacts introduced by the upconversion process. http://www.oppodigital.com/Getting-Most-out-of-DVD-on-HDTV-Display.html There are some upconverting DVD players on the market that cannot do the job well. Perhaps they employ low-quality detail enhancement circuitry to simply enlarge video pixels from the original DVD to fill up the HD screen, or perhaps the electronics and algorithms used to handle the tasks are not adequate. Viewers will notice artifacts such as v isible pixelation, color shifting, jagged lines, and "ringing" borders introduced by the poor upconversion. These artifacts are often mistaken for digital compression flaws in the DVD itself, when in fact the DVD player and/or display may be causing them. The high-quality upconversion performed by a player such as the OPPO OPDV971H makes certain that what you see on screen accurately represents what is really on the disc.
HD-DVD players do not require HDMI. You can get 1080p over component cables. You can also get Dolby TrueHD using the analog inputs on the back of the HD-DVD player. But make sure the player you get has them. The Toshiba HD-A2(the one that lists for 500 bucks) doesn't have them. The first gen player, the HD-A1 does have them, but is harder to find these days. Now the one thing you will be missing out on with most SD-DVDs using component is upconverting. You'll need HDMI for that. And no, upconverting does not make them HD. It'll improve the picture, but SD-DVDs simply can't compete with a 1080p transfer.
I have the OPPO DV-970HD and an older 1080i HDTV that doesn't have HDMI, but there is a hack out that will let this player upconvert over component and it does a fantastic job. there are other upconverting players out there with hacks available to upconvert over component as well, search AVSforums
