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Again, sorry for the confusion John. I now own a RP CRT TV, and have been looking at ways to improve the picture on movies. The 720p thing really has my interest now. So, basically anybody that buys a 720p TV gets an immediate upgrade in the quality of even their basic cable? So, all cable, dvd's, and even games are projected in a 720p resolution (or close to it)?
Geez now I am thinking upgrading TV's is not an option, but a necessity ;-)

Shane D

Just to reply to my own reply, I just got off the phone with Samsung. She did not know what "Sean" was thinking, or maybe I just misunderstood.
Thanks for guidance John!
Now I have just have to ask....So is that the big deal with 1080p TV's? Most of them will not take an 1080p signal (which is fine since there is not much to receive), but do they do an incredible job of upscaling/upconverting/pixel filling?

Shane D

Shane your questions peeked my curiosity, here is a good article explaining 1080p HDTV Hope this helps.

Thanks for link. Since the quality seems very dependant on the source, I am not really sure what to think. Will my shitty cable quality become much better? I think that I may just go with an upscaling DVD player and perhaps, a satellite dish. Hopefully that would make some very noticable improvements and keep me happy for at least a year ;-)

Thanks to everybody for their input.

Shane D

Shane, the little bit I read about the 42H82 indicated that it did a pretty good job when fed "real" HDTV material. If you mean that your cable service in Halifax doesn't offer HDTV but a satellite service does offer it, then the way to get HDTV on your 42H82 is to switch the cable to HDTV satellite. Forget the "upconverting" player; your set doesn't need it. If your present player is mediocre, a new player may make a slight improvement independently of any scaling feature.

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Forget the "upconverting" player; your set doesn't need it. If your present player is mediocre, a new player may make a slight improvement independently of any scaling feature.

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I have to agree with JohnK on this one.
A friend of mine bought an upscaling dvdp last year for the very reason of trying to get HD resolution from non-HD dvds. As expected, there was little change and if any, hard to decide whether it could be considered an improvement. However in buying a different brand, the contrast and colour saturation was noticeably better.

One must start with higher resolution to really get higher resolution. It is too bad that HD tv content is still so limited here. Very frustrating.

From what I’ve been reading, VP’s MAY, or MAY NOT help cable / satellite. Whenever I ask, I get the “garbage in, garbage out” response. But numerous folks on different forums all swear by them and that they do help regardless of input.

Some VP’s are better for SD video, SD film, and HD inputs. None seam to do all of them equally well. To date, I’m leaning toward the Crystalio II VPS-3800. It’s quite expensive though, about $3500US. Most users claim it is the most advanced and will process any source very well. The 3800 has a media player as well. The 3300 does not have the media player and it $500 less.

I’ve been following this string at AVS. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=688903

And if you are going to go the VP route, you might as well get a DVD player with a good MPEG decoder and have it modified for SDI output right off the decoder. It is the “cleanest” way to get true data to the VP.

And the best "VP" (vice president) today is?