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In Reply to: clarification posted by RichardH on October 23, 1999 at 11:36:50:
What no one here is telling you is that widespread use of HDTV will absolutely require changes in DVD--both hardware and software. DVD players will eventually output true progressive scanned video at the resolution of HDTV. Currently this is not possible with the DVDs and DVD players on the market. If you want to sit on your wallet until this development is brought to market, you will be waiting several years and then some for prices to come down and titles to come out. But at least you will not have a dinosaur connected to your TV.What I recommend, and the approach I plan to take when the time is right (i.e., when I've paid off my speakers and there are some good second or third generation audio DVD players out there) is to find separate machines for video and audio DVD. Truly, electronics manufacturers cannot build a perfect machine that does DVD audio and video perfect justice. In the design of such machines, audio or video must take a back seat. In other words, no engineer can optimize a DVD-player for both media equally without compromising quality on both no matter what chip has been developed (and Cirrus has one for DVD-A and SACD by the way).
So it makes sense to me for you to hold off on your DVD purchase for a year or two. At that point there will be a good option for an audio player that will be able to play video, although not designed for that. I recommend something capable of upsampling to 24/192. A good option right now is the Melos DVT, which I've been assured is fully upgradeable and should be a beautiful DVD-A player. But I'm a skeptic and would probably wait. Hope this helps.
Greg
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