Ok, a buddy of mine is finally getting around to finishing a HT area in his basement. He does not have a lot of money to spend, but managed to save up for a Sanyo Z5 recently he got for around 1K. I'm jealous as hell since I only have the Z2.
Anyway, for the rest of his audio gear he has a Yamaha 5.1 receiver (about 3 years old), a Yammy DVD player that came with the receiver package, and some smaller yammy speakers that came with the package that are a little bigger than Bose crap.
I will work on him at some point on Axioms, but that will take some time. He wants to get a better DVD player since he now has this nice projector.
I'm trying to figure out if he should get one of the new Toshiba HD DVD players. Since the Z5 is native 720p I'm guessing it would have to scale down the signal if receiving a 1080i or 1080p signal via HDMI.
Or would it make for sense for him to look at one of the Oppo or other upscaling players?
