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morrefule:
I wouldnt' go DVD, unless you don't have an HD TV.  Go Blu-Ray.  You can get a good one now for around $150 or a really good one for $200. 

Personal preferences for the higher priced units - LG BD390, Sony BDP-S560, and Samsung BD-P3600

Personal preferences on more budget friendly units - Sony BDP-S360, Samsung BD-P1600, and Pioneer BDP-120

That is if you decide not to go with the king of all the PS3.  Which will be very hard to find soon, they had a problem with thier Hard Drives in a few of the new units, so many retailers will not be getting restocked till Mid January.

Kuroshima:
Hehe I bought a crap toshiba bluray player over black Friday weekend for 90 usd. It gets the job done and looks and sounds fine.

On the DVD player front, just 1). find one that has dedicated hardware upscaling (that doesn't suck)
2). Supports your region code (or multiple region codes for that matter)
3). Has the preferred features (optical, coaxial, dts, component, hdmi etc)

aren't the settings for picture format on your tv? Not on your player. It is detected automatically generally...
I don't remember... Haven't use a DVD player in a while ... I have my computer hooked up as my monitor.

kenshin-dono:
ya the player is set to 16:9 and the tv autodetects usually but even manually adjusting it doesn't change anything, it just plays some movies in screwed up ratio's, i dont know why. It really bugs me

blea, i did a bunch of looking around and theres like NO dvd players that play 1080p through component. All upscaling ones only do it over HDMI, the point was i wanted to keep it on a seperate set of inputs than my HDMI inputs/presets.

no point in getting another BD player, i already got a PS3 which is the best one out there right now. I guess i'll just keep using this old thing for some stuff and my BD player for ones that play weird or that i want to look better.

I guess the onlyr eason they dont do component over 1080p is stupid copyright worries or something *sigh*

outa curiosity what problems did they have with the HD's of the newer units? I dont like the look on those. The sleek touch buttons on the original were way cooler

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