upscaling hdmi dvd players - Saxperience

m0nk3yb0y94 · 27th February 2012, 18:00

Has anyone got one of these? Was going to buy a blu ray player but dont wanna pay the amount of money they are thought geting a 1080p dvd player might be a cheaper option

Tony · 27th February 2012, 18:11

Aren't they about £60 now? That's not too expensive. Add just under a ton to that and you can get a PS3.

I got one of those types of DVD players a few years back and although it does a good job, the upscalling doesn't compare to Blu ray quality.

0rang3peel · 27th February 2012, 22:07

you can pick bluray players up for like £40, so no point

Manu · 28th February 2012, 12:22

I have seen BR players for as low as 40 quid (asda) and decent brands starting from 60 quid upwards. The upscaling on mine (samsung) does work wonders, best picture I have seen so far in digital. My previous player (onkyo) did upscale but wasn't as good on contrast and colours, still was good though.

Some years ago I had a Marantz dvd player that has an amazing picture quality despite no upscaling and no digital output. Sometimes it's down to what you buy and I do confirm the obvious: bottom barrel cheapo dvd players don't have a picture quality as good as brand players. You get what you pay for, buy cheap buy twice yada yada...

With 60-65 quid you can easily find a samsung or philips BR player that upscales. It doesn't mean you have to buy bluray discs anyway. They're still expensive and on most the picture quality isn't that great because it still is recent technology. Back to the early days of DVD, the picture wasn't exactly great on most discs, the warner bros ones were actually shitty, while some others were only letterbox 4:3 and pcm stereo sound instead of real widescreen and dolby digital.