Posted by Alfred Kaufmann on 11/01/07 18:04

Oops! Sorry I must apologize for my previous message. I just checked
the connection for the cable player and the HDMI cable was tranferred
a couple of days ago to a new cable box and component video connection
was hooked up to the DVD player - I will correct that and hope it
works. I shall report the results here. Thanks!

Al


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:57:37 -0000, Doug Jacobs
<djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

>Alfred Kaufmann <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> How would you do that, it is not mentioned on the outside of the
>> package that the DVD prohibits upconversion?
>
>It's not the DVDs themselves - it's the dumbass player.
>
>Some players that do upscaling, won't do it over the component video
>connection...which begs the question, why buy an upscaling DVD player at
>all if you don't have a HDMI-enabled TV?
>
>Even then, the HDTV has its own upscaler, so even if player only does 480p
>to the TV, the TV will upscale it to whatever its native resolution is.

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