I need help buying a DVD player to compliment my new Panasonic Widescreen 53" HDTV. There are soooo many different ones but they don't say much about using them on an HDTV! I'm not interested in recording but do want to be able to enjoy watching movies on my new TV. I also still have a (dinosaur) Laser Disk player. Would that give me a better quality picture? I'm a total newbie with all this HD tech stuff,,,so try to use simple words. <G> Thanks so much! Linda
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I would advise buying one with progressive scan and make sure it has a dvi or hdmi output...Samsung makes a relatively inexpensive player with dvi...I prefer Pioneer Elite.
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It is an absolute must that you get a Progressive Scan DVD player or you will be truly missing out on a much better picture. One with DVI would be preferable if your TV accepts a DVI connection. Look at Pioneer and Sony in my opinion.
Hugh
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>>It is an absolute must that you get a Progressive Scan DVD player
ONLY if you have a native 480P scan rate and Linda you do, you are covered.
If your display does not have a native 480P scan rate then in most cases you get the best image with 480I.
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Sorry for my total dumbness....but could you please explain the term "native"? Is there a DVD player made specifically for HD? Also, are there differently made DVD's for HD or are all DVD's the same? I had no idea this HD stuff was going to be so hard...LOL! <G> Linda
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Linda...I'm not really very qualified in this arena, but I believe that native means, if this scan rate was incorporated into the tv for receiving progressively scanned images from a progressive scan dvd player...which, as Richard said, "yours does"...so you would want to make sure you buy a player with progressive scan ability...to know what progressive scan means simply type progressive scan into a web search and you'll find an endless supply of info on this subject.
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I would not have said it was an absolute necessity if I didn't know your set was ok for 480p. There are three common native settings: 480p, 720p and 1080i. Most HDTVs are native for 480p and 1080i meaning they don't convert those signals to something else. Sets with native 480p and 1080i will upconvert a 720p signal to 1080i which is fine but not quite as good as if the tv had a native scan rate of 720p. So if your set was not 480p and was only 480i a progressive scan DVD player which is 480p would be down converted to 480i on your HDTV and the picture would not be as good.
This explanation is totally unnecessary as I know of no High Definition TV that does not do 480p natively. You had mentioned you wanted the answer kept simple and I tried to do that for you. Read my personal email I sent to you and you will do fine.
Hugh
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Hugh did great with the native part. That is what it means, no conversion required.
>>This explanation is totally unnecessary as I know of no High Definition TV that does not do 480p natively.
All HD Digital displays and Toshiba and Hitachi CRT RPTV. There are some others.
If you do not have a native 480P scan rate on your display then 480I typically performs better than 480P.
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Hugh are you sure you are right about HDTV's that only accept 1080i or 480p, that they upconvert a 720p signal coming in to 1080i. My Mits does not upconvert a 720p signal to 1080i. Case in point I can not play Xbox games that are done in 720p.
Now my Hi-Def STB does convert the 720p to 1080i but the T.V itself will not.
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It is correct that the inputs for the Mitsubishis are 480P and 1080I only, no 720P. However, if your Mits has an ATSC tuner and you receive your OTA HD directly over this tuner, the Mits will convert ABC's 720P signal to 1080I.
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1) This TV accepts 480p, so you want a progressive scan DVD player
2) It is NOT a digital display (DPL, LCD, ...) it is a CRT type display. This means that connecting the DVD player to the TV should be done in one of two types: component or DVI. With digital displays, you should usually use the DVI type, but since yours is not a digital display, it may not make much of a difference - it really depends on the quality of the player.
3) There is a website I trust that is great for DVD players:
4) Since you have a Panasonic TV, and Panasonic DVD players have a good reputation, if I were you, I'd get a good Panasonic DVD player. Plan to spend $300 - $500.
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So I have the Mits WS-55511, wich does 480i/p and 1080i. I currently have a non-progressive DVD player and am considering an upgrade. I would like to be able to play SACD and DVD-A, so I am looking at the Denon DVD-2200. I can't seem to find in the lit. on the website anything about 480 or 1080 or 720. Am I missing something? Are all DVD's the same?
Thanks.
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DVDs are 480i (standard) or 480p (progressive scan). The Denon you want is already progressive scan 480p. Any other output choices are simply 480 upconverted to 720p or 1080i. The DVD source is still only 480i/p.
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The bit stream coming off of any DVD is 480I; That is the native format. Progressive scan DVD players are nothing but inexpensive 480P scalers. They take the native 480I and deinterlace and scale it to 480P.
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