Samsung announced a DVD player that will upconvert standard DVD (480i/p) to 1080i or 720p! And, it uses a DVI connection so that all the conversion takes place digitally and gets input the same. Of coursse you would need a DVI input HDTV to get full benefit, but it should be a big improvement it seems to me. It also does DVD-A. Not sure how it handles the audio output, hopefully with a digital output also. The web page below will give you the news piece. Hopefully other brands will follow suit, so when HDVD comes around we won't have to replace all our old standard DVDs.
I am new here so not sure if the link works. If not, just copy and paste the url.
dsmith
<a href="http://db.widescreenreview.com/weeknews/FMPro?-db=webnewsearch.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-sortfield=rank&-op=cn&Type=Web%20News&Year=2003&Month=01&Day=29&-recid=40318&-find=" target="_blank">http://db.widescreenreview.com/weeknews/FMPro?-db=webnewsearch.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-sortfield=rank&-op=cn&Type=Web%20News&Year=2003&Month=01&Day=29&-recid=40318&-find=
I am new here so not sure if the link works. If not, just copy and paste the url.
dsmith
<a href="http://db.widescreenreview.com/weeknews/FMPro?-db=webnewsearch.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-sortfield=rank&-op=cn&Type=Web%20News&Year=2003&Month=01&Day=29&-recid=40318&-find=" target="_blank">http://db.widescreenreview.com/weeknews/FMPro?-db=webnewsearch.fp5&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-sortfield=rank&-op=cn&Type=Web%20News&Year=2003&Month=01&Day=29&-recid=40318&-find=
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