Progressive scan DVD player (1 Viewer)

[McPaul]

I've never had a prog. scan DVD player.
I've got some money from BestBuy.ca and am looking at their players they have available. I'm tossing it up whether to get an expensive player, or a cheap one and then wait for the Blu Ray ones to come out.

Has anyone here got any experience with a Panasonic S97?

 

[Jim Mcc]

I don't have any experience with that player.
What type and size of display is it for?
There are some pretty good inexpensive players out there. I would get an inexpensive one, then upgrade when the HD players are within your budget. That's what I plan to do.

 

[McPaul]

Toshiba 50" HD CRT RPTV

thanks for the input!

 

[Jim Mcc]

I think most prog. scan players will look excellent on that set. The Toshiba 3960 has gotten great reviews for an inexpensive player.

 

[Allan Jayne]

You might want to choose only from the progressive scan DVD players that Stacy Spears and his reviewers had given high ratings to. Do a Google search for Stacy Spears Shootout Secrets and read the reviews pointed out.

There are progressive scan DVD players out there that give a picture no better when using their progressive output compared with using their interlaced output. The reason is that the de-interlacer built into the player might not be all that good. Such a shortcoming would be seen with that player no matter what TV set you connected the player to. A player that does not have motion adaptive de-interlacing or does not have 3-2 pulldown sensing will likely have a lower score in reviews.

Just about very TV that accepts both interlaced and progressive scan material has its own de-interlacer for interlaced inputs and displays all material on the screen the same way. So the only need to get a progressive DVD player is after you looked for and found interlacing deficiences in the final picture when using the interlaced component video output.

Video hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/video.htm

 

[Arthur S]

Allan

Those ratings appear to be 5 years old. Am I missing something?

Thanks