I recently purchased a Toshiba 52" HDTV with HDMI capablility. I have noticed that when I play a DVD, the picture is no clearer than with my old Hitachi tv. Can you advise what type of DVD player I should be using with a HDTV?
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if you old TV was not digital, and your exisiting dvd player is progressive and its hooked either via component or DVI/HDMI to your newer HDTV - you normally would get a very noticeable improvement - comparable with the sharpness and clarity you often see when a DVD is played on a new generation computer
It should look better, however is not going to look like true hi def, ie 720p or 1080i
Generally 90% of the improvement on a dvd player when moving from a non-digial TV to digital TV w/b the 480p progressive ability of the DVD player itself - which today cost less than 50 dollars
Now you can pay for so-called "upscaling" models approx 150 dollars to 400 dollars, however many merely create new problems, and can never really create true hi def
The Toshiba model has had big problems, however Panasonic has a new model that supposedly is quite good
Keep in mind Toshiba plans to introduce a true Hi def dvd player in fall 2005 (HD-DVD)with a starting price of 1000 dollars. However it will play backwards compatible hi def discs costing about 10% more - meaning the market will be huge as the price drops on the dvd player