Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on August 24, 2006 at 21:36:33

In Reply to: Help with Dual-use DVD-player, please posted by Pathophone on August 24, 2006 at 15:34:48:

If your Toshiba is an SD set, you are not going to be able to upscale anything. It will only accept SD signals.

There is supposed to be a Blu-ray player out in a few months -- not the PS3 -- that will retail for $599 (I don't know anything else about this player). You may want to hold on a bit and check it out when it gets here. It should upscale your DVDs if you need it to and will downscale to SD if you want to watch HD movies on your SD Toshiba.

After I reread your post, I guess "and then good for the new HD when it arrives" could be referring to your intended plasma purchase instead of an HD source. If that's the case, take a look at the new Oppo 970 ($150 at www.oppodigital.com). It will output 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i.