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In Reply to: Dear Confused... posted by Harmonia on July 25, 2002 at 00:14:22:

Thanks! Yours and Todd's explanation helped clear things up. However, you've raised another concern. You said...
>>So why am I fervently pursuing an HD TV (ready, capable, whatever) *now*? The better to enjoy my DVDs. HD TVs can display 480p with progressive DVD players<<
and
>>the image on a good display with decent progressive scan DVD is great<<
I purchased a Technics A10 DVD Audio/Video player a few months ago. I don't think it has progressive scan. How important is this feature? Am I defeating the purpose of buying a good TV if the player doesn't cut it?

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Are you defeating the purpose . . . - Auricle 07:55:55 08/01/02 (0)
In a word, yes! Unless you buy an external scaler/deinterlacer (dvdo is fairly reasonable but it might be cheaper to upgrade the player).
Take the advice of the other contributors and visit the various forums. Oh yeah, to make matters worse, progressive scan is nice, but the vast majority of players that do not have VGA out have a few "bugs" (chroma in particular) so one needs to know and observe. And do not be brand loyal, manufacturers can go from the top of the heap to the bottom from one model line to the next (and vice versa).
Have fun!

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