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Here is the challenge: I expect to buy a 42” Plasma in about 5 months—a Panasonic if I were buying today. However, I currently own an SD 32” Toshiba, and I want to continue to enjoy it for the next five months. Right now, I need to purchase a new DVD-player. Can I find a good player for $300 or under that will be good for an SD for the next five months and then good for the new HD when it arrives and I will want some upscaling? I watch mostly Netflix DVDs and Dish network programming. Are there specific players or specific attributes to keep an eye out for?
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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.
I think the correct answer is "no."DVD players, even if they upscale, don't play the hi-rez layer of new HD--blu-ray or HD-DVD. Now there are some HD-DVD discs, which consist of both HD-DVD and DVD on the same disc, but that's a different matter.
For HD-DVD or blu-ray, you need separate players, and at present there are no plans for a universal "HD" player. As I understand it, either of these players will handle DVD, with upscaling, but I would at least wait until second generation players arrive before taking the plunge . . . some bugs are still being worked out . . .
Many recommend an OPPO player as good upscaling DVD player, but if you read some of Joe Murphy's informative posts in this forum, the Oppo player doesn't work well with certain plasmas--specifically Panasonic, which you mentioned as one of your favorites.
There are lots of fairly affordable DVD players that upscale, but I don't think there is one (excepting the OPPO?) that provides the best quality and best "bang for the buck."
The video handling of many of these players is put through some rigorous testing at the link below:
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html
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