Video Asylum

Posted by Rob A. (i) on December 08, 2000 at 21:07:32:

In Reply to: Progressive scan: Noticeable improvement, or minimal? posted by Samir on December 07, 2000 at 10:18:41:

If your picture looks great now and you notice no scan lines I wouldn't take the hit right now. The technology and pricing for TV's is going to be very unstable over the next 2 years. You already have a good TV. It would be a shame to take another big hit 18 months from now due to currently unannounced technology or major pricing changes. Just to get a marginally better picture. The resale market for used TV's is pretty bad. If you can afford all the hits to stay ahead of the game go for it. (I'm very generous with other people's money)

If you are talking about getting the brand new Sony DVP-S9000ES ($1500) I would buy that as much or more for the sound reproduction as the progressive scan. It has SACD (Super Audio CD) playback capability. This will play back sound with the quality of a high end CD player, unlike the other progressive scan DVD's out there. This will probably become a standard making most earlier progressive scan players obsolete.