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Has anyone here had a chance to compare HD against a good upconverting DVD player on a 720p display ?



John, I've compared same title SD DVD's vs HD DVD's on my 720p Toshiba plasma using my Toshiba HD-XA2, as I've stated before the XA2 has the best upscaling I have ever seen, but the picture quality is still not even comparable to HD content.
A couple of the HD DVD's I own have the extras in standard content, I can switch from the extras to the movie in a blink due to the HD DVD's menu system, the results are to say the least dramatic in terms of how different the quality of the content is.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.