DVD upconverting player?

David B

I just installed my first HDTV, which is an LG 42LH30. Will an "upconverting" DVD player cause my standard DVDs to look better? Or does the television's native video engine do all that already?

I'll do the Blue Ray thing later, but I was wondering about my collection of standard DVD's.

Answer
Your tv does upconvert the dvd signal. If you are using component (red/green/blue) cables from your dvd player to your tv, you should be getting quality equal to a normal upconverting dvd player. Before blu ray, some upconverting dvd players were around which did a slightly better upconverting job than most tvs. But they were very expensive and now anyone wanting a real good pic goes with Blu Ray.

So wait to get a blu ray if your current dvd player has component connections.

do any upconverting dvd players upconvert any video?

Colton Kel

im playing to get a 1080p hd tv and i was wandering if they also upconvert video games like the n64. and i hgave a surround sound system wiht hdmi ports.

Answer
DVD players do NOT have inputs. They will not take your videos and up-convert them unless you burn the video into a standard def DVD.

All HDTV's will up-convert (or down-convert) the 3 resolutions to match it's internal format.

This means if you feed it 480i from an old game system - the TV will up-convert (really "Magnify") the image to 1080.

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