DVD player VS blu-ray player ?

[MacinMan]

I was curious at this point in time, Is there any advantages of having a regular DVD player over a blu-ray player these days for standard DVDs? While i have no issues with playing my standard dvds in my panasonic blu-ray players, It seems that a regular DVD player can still address some of the specific navigation features such as hitting the number buttons for chapter and scene navigation. as well as a few other minor differences.

One more thing, I don't notice as much difference of DVD video playing at 480p upscaled by the tv as playing a DVD in a bd player and letting the player upscale. In fact, I find that feeding a direct 480 signal to the tv provides better results for SD content.

Just thought i'd see what people have to say, since many people still have a large dvd library still. My choice about dvd upconversion is simply upgrade to the blu-ray source when it becomes available. It's the only real way I noticed a full difference in content.

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by MacinMan

One more thing, I don't notice as much difference of DVD video playing at 480p upscaled by the tv as playing a DVD in a bd player and letting the player upscale. In fact, I find that feeding a direct 480 signal to the tv provides better results for SD content.

TVs and players use different techniques to scale...for instance, lets say you have a 768p (such as a panny plasma).

If you send 480p content straight to the TV the panny may upscale to 1080p then back down to fit its native resolution 768p. (not sure if this is exact process?)

If you have the player upscale, it may upscale 480p directly to 720p then to your tv which will take 720p and upscale once more to 768p. So in essence, more scaling possible more problems. etc


again this is just a scenerio and may not work exactly as I described but you get th jist... players and tvs use different technologies and different hardware to achieve things.

[MacinMan]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

TVs and players use different techniques to scale...for instance, lets say you have a 768p (such as a panny plasma).

If you send 480p content straight to the TV the panny may upscale to 1080p then back down to fit its native resolution 768p. (not sure if this is exact process?)

If you have the player upscale, it may upscale 480p directly to 720p then to your tv which will take 720p and upscale once more to 768p. So in essence, more scaling possible more problems. etc


again this is just a scenerio and may not work exactly as I described but you get th jist... players and tvs use different technologies and different hardware to achieve things.

Ok, Yes I have a 1080p panasonic plasma 42" so anything not restricted to 1080i or otherwise, goes to 1080p unless it's an SD source which the TV says is coming in at 480p, or SD ota reports 480i when hitting info.

I may just buy an appletv for the bedroom, i have two panny players the livingroom panny has netflix it's the BD85k the bedroom is 601k, no netflkix the new appletv has netflix and it iwll play itunes content
so it would be a good streaming addition, which is the only reason I'd buy a new bd player at this point to replace the 601k.

I may pick up a cheap dvd player because i've found sometimes letting the player upscale brings out video defects. All depends on the source though.

[bhampton]

When I was in France over the summer I saw a tiny Chinese DVD player on sale at a grocery store. It was black and great looking. You could set the region to whatever you wanted including region free. (Sometimes you have to set a player back to region 1 for example for discs that won't play in a region free player) and it had all kinds of outputs including VGA and SCART and so on.

It was very cheap and nice looking and it was hard for me not to buy it but it would have complicated my setup so I left it sitting there.

Such a player would be great to play DVDs and CDs to save wear and tear on your main player.

-Brian

[MacinMan]

Originally Posted by bhampton

When I was in France over the summer I saw a tiny Chinese DVD player on sale at a grocery store. It was black and great looking. You could set the region to whatever you wanted including region free. (Sometimes you have to set a player back to region 1 for example for discs that won't play in a region free player) and it had all kinds of outputs including VGA and SCART and so on.

It was very cheap and nice looking and it was hard for me not to buy it but it would have complicated my setup so I left it sitting there.

Such a player would be great to play DVDs and CDs to save wear and tear on your main player.

-Brian

speaking of region free I really would like to find a source of the original bionic woman series that will play in the u.s. the only version is the remake. I hear it's not as good as the original. I found it for sale for region 2 and 4 but i only have region 1 or all players.

[Spence]

speaking of region free I really would like to find a source of the original bionic woman series that will play in the u.s. the only version is the remake. I hear it's not as good as the original. I found it for sale for region 2 and 4 but i only have region 1 or all players.

I still use my DVD player to play my imported titles (since I can't crack my Samsung BD-1500 blu to be region free for DVDs!).

As far as the original Bionic Woman, it's coming to DVD in the US on October 19th.