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I love/hate those debate. I reed so many over the years and they all end the same way. Someone just whisper the word "jitter" and ... Note that I am not an engineer and I have not conducted any research on the subject. I am just an ordinary person that try to have/form an opinion. There is so...

One of the best scene I founded that shows the anamorphic improvement is the begining of Gattaca, when there is slow vertical pan in the hallway of Gattaca. There is many curved element in the picture. Check the recessed light countour during the camera pan. The edges are dancing very much when...

I read somewhere (I think it is Secret's Home Theater), that Panasonic RP91 and H2000 (not sure if it is still around) that were essentially the same player except that the latter was heavier and more expensive. I admit that I prefer heavier product for the sake of build quality, but if the...

If I may, I think it is foolish to expect to buy a piece of equipment and hope it will be compatible in the futur with product not invented yet. As an analogy, when I bougth my 50" rptv, it had no component input. The year after that, it was introduce in the market. And we are only talking...

TylerL, Alright, I surrender. If what you say materialize, then everobody will be happy. We all going to buy this hypotetical HD-DVD that decypher the HDCP. This player will have both DVI and component output, because since it is now legal to output decyphered HD content through DVI, why...

TylerL, I think you don't understand a thing about HDCP. Before insulting poeple, you should try to understand how it works. The purpose of HDCP is to carry an encrypted digital signal all the way to the display device, and to be decrypted BY the display device. This way, it becomes almost...

Let me first say that I too have bought an HDTV ready TV and I will really mad if all this encryption thing materialize. I knew about HDCP before I toke the decison of buying an HDTV set. I bought it for what it can give me today (better DVD picture, progressive scan,..), not tomorrow...

Hello, I will share my experience since I own a Samsung TSL3293HF. If you search for post under my name, you will find some (many :)) comments I made here, so I will be brief here. Lack of 3:2 pulldown: either I don't see the artifact or it is not really noticeable on such a "small" screen...

That it exactly it, you must set your DVD to 16x9. In doing so, the image will be stretched vertically, then the 16x9 mode of your Sony will "magnetically" squeezed the image back to a 16x9 ration. In the process, the image will retain ALL the information on the anamorphic DVD instead of having...

Any source, either DVD or dish, if it is 16x9 formated, it will have bars on a 4x3 TV set, period. The 16x9 squeeze mode is there to give a better image on 4x3 TV set from a 16x9 source, not to remove bars. In my opinion, it is a great feature, it makes the picture of a 16x9 source on a 4x3 tv...

First thing is that 16x9 enhanced mode work only with anamorphic DVD. Before, you enable the 16x9 mode on your Sony, how the picture looks? If the picture doesn't appears too tall, it mean that the DVD you are watching is not anamorphic, or you DVD player is not setted for widescreen (16x9) TV.

Althought I don't have a progressive DD player, I am sure that a progressive DVD player on an interlaced TV will not do anything better than a regular DVD player. A friend of mine have a progressive DVD player hooked up on a regular interlaced TV, and there is no difference with his previous...

Hi, I was in the same situation, except I had to choose between a Sony 32FS13 and a Samsung TSL3293HF. I bought the Samsung and I am very happy with it. You can search "Samsung" in this forum and you will find some of my post explaining why I choose the Samsung over sony. Just to recap ;)...

Ergin, MichealW, Thanks to you both, I didn't expect that much information. I think I will begin investigation on a new DVD player. Thanks again.

That's what I thought. But, can anyone answer technical question? Is the DVD progressive by nature or is there a line doubler inside progressive DVD player? Thanks.

Anyone else? Thanks.

Hi, I am not sure if it the right place to ask this, but anyway. Is the content on DVD encoded progressive or interlace?. Which of the following statement is true? Statement 1: if the content on DVD is progressive, that mean regular DVD player convert the image to interlace to play on...

Anyone??

Before I decided to spend more for the Samsung, I had stopped my choice on the Sony 32FS13, because, like you, I really wanted the 16:9 mode. If I were you, I would go for the Sony because it is much more easier to switch the 16:9 mode on and off. Going into the service menu each time, even...

David, The thing is that my s-video cable is not the hair thin kind of cable given away by manufacturer; it is a MonsterCable (I know, it is far from being top of the line). Do you think s-video cable is more sensible to interference or induction than component cable?

Can someone points out a couple of scene on dvd that push the envelope of onboard HDTV line doubler? I purchase a Samsung 32" HDTV recently and I want to verify if comments about how good this line doubler are true. I didn't saw any artefact as of now, I don't realy want to see them, but I...

It may be over your budget a little, have you seen the Samsung TSL3293 HDTV? I bought this recently and I am very satisfied. You have HDTV capability, progressive scan DVD capability, 16:9 mode through the remote (no need to go in the menu or worse, the service menu), and it is a flat screen...

Hi Brian, Please, let me know if it works out for you. Hope it will.

Sure this must be obvious for most people here, but I have learn the hard way that it is very important. My new TV (Samsung 32" HDTV) showed 2 symetrical, vertical lighter bar, about 2inch tick. Those bars weren't obvious all the time. I first thought it was source bound. Last weekend, I rent...

Joseph, I own a Panasonic first gen player, and it do the proper 4:3 downconversion when set accordingly. I will go out on a limb; I think it is imposible that a manufacturer had released a player without this feature. I even don't think it is a feature, it must be in the DVD standard since...

If you want progressive scanning, to my knowledge, you can't avoid going for HDTV set. I had about the same requirements as you have when I shop for my new TV recently. Here in Canada, HDTV broadcasting is almost non-existant, so I was going for a regular NTSC flat screen TV. But, I wanted a TV...

Gil D,

Hey Keith, I was in the same situation as you recently. As far as I know, the Wega are the only non-HD set that can do the 16:9 mode with the press of a button. So, I was all setted to buy a KV32FS13. The KV32FV27 to my knowledge as only the PIP, a 3D comb filter and is auto detecting...

I agree to all of the above. I will add that it make a big difference with slow vertical camera pan. One particular example that come to my mind, is the very begining of Gattaca, in the hall Gattaca, the camera is slowly paning down, on a non 16x9 mode display you see the edges of the recessed...