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Philips Outlet has the refurbished Philips DVD Player w/ HD Upconversion (DVP5982/37) for $40 + $0 shipping = $40 shipped. This DVD Player can upconvert your DVDs to 1080p and plays DivX files. USB Direct plays photos and music from USB flash drives. [BizRate]
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Can really "upconversion player" improve the picture quality? What is an exact difference between this player with HDMI cable and a non-upconversion player with AV cable (on 1080p TV)?
#1, it does improve the picture tremendously. Try a quick Google or Yahoo search to find your answers. This player is great.
Try not to get your home theater advice on Bensbargains there ktyman.
It CAN improve the picture not DOES.
It depends on the quality of the internal scaler on your display.
A $40 "up converter" can actually make the picture WORSE if your display already has excellent on board scaling.
Keep in mind there are people that pay thousands of dollars for dedicated external scalers, and even those do not overcome the mathematical impossibility of re-creating image data that is simply not there.
Amazon has new for $60
If this could upconvert out-of-business HD-DVD to the superior quality of Blue Rays, then I'd be sold.
Even the Toshiba A2, supposedly an excellent upconverter, didn't upconvert better than my Panasonic plasma.If this upconverts better than your TV, you've got a TV with poor upconversion.
It's a decent dvd player. I wasn't impressed with the USB functionality on XViD files (stuttered randomly and choppy during movie panning shots), which should be the main reason to get this.
"USB Direct plays photos and music from USB flash drives."
? can it not play video as well w/ the USB?
Yes, like #3 theBlaze74 says, a low-cost scaler in a player might not be as good as the one in your display (the image on any screen less than a foot thick would not fill the screen w/o an upscaler). Having a digital connection (with the player's scaler disabled) makes an upscaling player worth the slightly higher (by now) price.
A lo-def signal will fill the screen of a display more than a foot thick even though it has no upscaling, so a player that upscales can be an improvement.
Not to mention ktyman is probably watching his 480 line Friends re-runs on his 720 line plasma by first converting them to 1080 lines with his new $40 dvd player, and thinking they look better because the player has the words "HD Upconversion" on the side.
Stick to the proven Samsumg upconverters. Don't waste your money on these.