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Is an upscaling DVD player considered an HD-DVD player? Or is this false advertizing?


To the first question the answer is no, anyone advertising upscale as HD is clearly trying to mislead the consumer.
There are many good articles on this site that are unbiased DVD Town towards either format. With the increasing amount of studios planning to release HD DVD, I would doubt that HD DVD is declining and the article you cited was probably started by Blu-ray supporters.

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