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Originally Posted by fox2jk
If you purchase a blu ray player will current dvd's look better on High Def TV?
And off topic component or HDMI for playing dvd's on hd?
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Sorry No - your DVD's will not look better with a BD player on a HD TV - unless a "cheap" CRT.
Plasma, DLP, LCD and other related technologies all have to convert the signal to their NATIVE resolution (there are going to be a lot of very disappointed people around that have bought TV's that can handle inputs of 1080i with a native resolution of 800 x 600) so a normal DVD will be being up converted by the TV with electronic trickery (and it's quite good - until you see the real thing) at the moment. A BD player will most probably have those smarts in it as well - as well as going the other way 1080p - (presumably 720p & maybe even PAL & NTSC).
If rumours are correct (I HOPE NOT) HD can only be transmitted over HDMI (This not a technical issue but a political problem) so presumably all up converted signals are technically a pretend HD - so go straight to HDMI do not pass go do not collect $200! Certainly HD will look better over HDMI - even if HD can be sent over Componenet not for Bandwidth reasons but Component is analogue - so the signal will have to converted (loss of quality) then converted back to digital (loss of quality again). However if from a DVD source I doubt anyone will pick the difference - if you want to get better quality out of DVD go for PAL mastered DVD's (and a player that can output PAL assuming your TV (monitor) can accept a PAL input.