[The News Bot]

Samsung has revealed some details about its upcoming range of standard DVD players, portable DVD players, and DVD recorders… Leading the charge will be two new up-converting ‘Hypervision’ DVD models able to upgrade standard DVD resolution to 1080i, 720p, and on one model, 1080p. The DVD-HD860 will be available in...

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[paulmcp2403]

well I think this shows Samsungs 'lack' of commitment to REAL High Definiton.... Quite frankly I am flabbergasted by this press release.... Why on earth are they still concentrating on upscaling DVD players as opposed to real HD????

[Monster]

But what would you play on a 'proper' Hi-Def player at the moment and who's to say they are not working on 'proper' HiDef at the same time?

Given the number of DVD's in peoples collections I think it is great that Samsung are trying to help squeeze every last bit of detail out of these discs.... and at very competative prices.

It will be a while before I and many other enthusiasts are on the HD player bandwagon, let alone Jo Public...

Hoping to see some good stuff at the Bristol show this year

[russraff]

Samsung's comitment is more than most. They have stated that they are only interested in making a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combi player, rather than one or the other. Somehow, I can't see Sony or Toshiba haviong that kind of comitment to "true" HD. Anyway, there are no titles available, so Samsung are doing what they should with the market they have.

[Dutch]

I'm afraid Samsung aren't allowed to make a Blu-ray/HD DVD combi player due to licensing issues. They have already announced an upcoming Blu-ray player - which unfortunately doesn't output 1080p. D'oh!

Steve

[paulmcp2403]

Tosh already have the first true high def on sale for under £400 at amazon.com.

Anyway I agree a unified approach is to be admired and I take back what i said about Samsung if that's thier approach :O)

[RockySpieler]

Just out of interest does anyone know how HD-DVD or Upscaling DVD players handle JPEG's???

If I had a 1280x720 JPEG Photo could it be displayed natively using one of these players (natively ish given overscan) and DVI/HDMI output?

[zapiy]

Lets say i grabbed some HD content burned onto a dvdr and then played on one of these upscaling dvd players would this run as a proper hd source or what would happen?

[Welwynnick]

What most people overlook is that the Samsung DVD-HD1080 looks like being the first disc player with an HDMI V1.2 output.

EVERYTHING else on the market is still at V1.0 (carries DD/DTS audio) or rarely V1.1 (carries DVD-A).

HDMI V1.2 wil carry direct stream digital (DSD) so SACDs can be replayed without having to be converted down to PCM. This is a long-anticipated capability so far only available with iLink.

Only thing is, I can't think of any amplifiers / processors with V1.2 inputs.....

Nick

[shuggy]

I am looking for a new dvd player or even better DVD recorder but I am uncertain what upscaling can offer me.I have a loewe spheros which automatically adapts the picture to 1366 x788 resolution.. Is this doing the same job as the samsung upscaler or will I get a noticably improved picture with 720p upscaling? Currently my component input shows an input of 576 pixels at 50 hz.
Advice please

[constp]

Originally Posted by welwynnick

What most people overlook is that the Samsung DVD-HD1080 looks like being the first disc player with an HDMI V1.2 output.

EVERYTHING else on the market is still at V1.0 (carries DD/DTS audio) or rarely V1.1 (carries DVD-A).

HDMI V1.2 wil carry direct stream digital (DSD) so SACDs can be replayed without having to be converted down to PCM. This is a long-anticipated capability so far only available with iLink.

Only thing is, I can't think of any amplifiers / processors with V1.2 inputs.....

Nick

The Denon 3806 has HDMI v. 1.1 and the new Denon 2807 coming out in March is supposed to have "much improved" HDMI capabilities. I wasn't able to find anywhere the HDMI version of the 2807 but I'm hoping it's 1.2.