Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Need help choosing an upscaling 5 disc DVD player

Cam, make sure you're aware of the size of this component!

I'm not sure of the ones you're looking at, but the two 400-disc ones I had were deeper than any cabinet I had. I had to open up the bacl of the cabinet to let them hang out the back!

to bad it is not a bluray player as well, that would be awesome.

I have not found anywhere that lists yea or nay whether the Sony DVD jukebox plays dual layer discs...anyone know for certain?

Dual-layer, certainly yes, that's always been a feature of DVDs.

Double-sided? I'd say no, I don't see how a disc could be flipped over inside the machine, and they are rare enough I don't think they'll go to the extra work to build that feature in.

But because they are rare, and even more rare are dual-layer, double-sided (most made this way, Farscape comes to mind, had a huge number of defective discs), so the most you'll see is dual-layer on one side and single on the other. It is easy enough to copy the single-layer side to a DVD-R and store it as a separate disc if you really want to watch its content.

Hey guys,

Well the DVD player was dropped off today and I'm hoping to get it hooked up tomorrow or Thursday and I was hoping I could get some input on connecting it properly. On the CX995V forum on AVS there is a lot of discussion on whether or not to use Component or HDMI, and I was wondering why I would go any other route other than HDMI? I've read through many many pages in the thread and there's suggestions to connect via Component at 720p etc., and also connecting via HDMI at 1080i. I don't understand the technical aspects but it's mention to connect via Component to allow the TV set to do the scaling, and I don't know (if I am supposed to go the Component route) if the player has to be connected directly to the TV in order for it to do the scaling therefor eliminating my AVR.

I hope this makes sense, and maybe you guys could steer me in the right direction. I posted a message at AVS basically asking the same question but that thread is fairly slow and I don't know when I will receive an answer.

Thanks guys and I appreciate all the input.

I would route through AVR via HDMI - problems with the unit aside. Far too easy to let the 3808 control everything, as opposed to running video to TV and audio to AVR.

Thanks Zimm, that's the way I'm going to go, I was mainly worried about image degradation.

Here's a suggestion that I just received from a user on AVS:

"Cam I cannot definitively answer your question...

However, I have hooked my 995 up via both Component and HDMI and I feel the image is a bit "crisper" via HDMI. Originally I was using Component into my AVR at 480i and then allowing the HQV Reon chip in my Onkyo to de-interlace and upconvert to my projectors native 720p.

Personally I was disappointed in Onkyo's implementation of the Reon chip and started sending 720p out of the 995 via HDMI.

Then I purchased a DVDO Edge and now I run 480p from the 995 via HDMI to the Edge which then interlaces the signal back to 480i before it "properly" de-interlaces and scales the signal to 720p.

This last solution has worked the best for me.

I believe your 3808 uses the older ABT chip, but I would try it both ways output 480i via Component, 480p via HDMI, and 1080i via HDMI) and see which looks best to your eyes.

Pretty simple menu changes so you can see which looks best... for ease of use I would definately run it through the 3808 however."

I guess I'll use this as a starting point unless you guys think otherwise.

Seems reasonable to me, but I haven't made the HD jump.

Take it from me, it's been 12 years and I've come to the realization that there's nothing special about taking a jump

It isn't about image degradation, but that person trying to get the best picture possible.

DVDs have their picture encoded at 480i. Some scalers/deinterlacers do a better job than others. Also many players can not output video over HDMI at 480i, but a minimum of 480p.

If the inbuilt deinterlacer does a poor job converting 480i to 480p, no matter what you do to scale afterward isn't going to look good.

That was until ABT released their newest chip, which can take a 480p image which was created poorly and turn it back to 480i and do it right.

Really, judge with your own eyes, since you're the person which will be watching it.