Out of HT for ages & need a new DVD player (1 Viewer)

[Ari]

I set up my HT around 5 years ago and forgot about it while raising two kids. Now my DVD player is dead and I need to replace it and I see BluRay HDMI and whatnot and am confused.

My current setup consists of a Toshiba 57HDX82 RPTV that does 720p and only has composite, S-video, component and DVI inputs, a Panny DVD carousel (now dead) and an Harman DD/DTS receiver.

What sort of DVD player should I get?? Will I be able to fully utilize the new upconverting players that output via HDMI??

 

[Al.Anderson]

Your TV is large enough that you would see an improvement with BluRay; though obviously not as much as if you had a 1080 display. Whether the cost of HD players and media (media is the bigger issue to me) is worth it to you is another thing.

The HD players do not upscale over component (you get a little message that the feature is being turned off); this is so people don't make copies through the analog output.

 

[hodedofome]

You have a DVI input, therefore you could get an HDMI->DVI cable and it should work.

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