panasonic DMR EX78 EB-K

[dEANO42]

i'm confused, does my panasonic dvd recorder play "High Def" Dvd's? My panasonic isn't reading my hd dvd's? can i modify it to do so, do i need a firmware update cd?
Thanks for any help..
i have an xbox 360, awaiting repair, does that play hd films?

 

[JH4]

The answer is no to all.
You need a Blu Ray player or a Sony Playstation 3 to play back High Definition Blu Ray DVDs (BDs) .. and a TV that can accept HD resolutions.

 

[bonzobanana]

The xbox 360 will play high def HDDVD movies if you buy an external HDDVD drive (now an obsolete format though) and can also play high def video files stored on its hard drive, network or from xbox live. Your Panasonic upscales which means it takes a standard definition source and interpolates it upto a higher resolution. This can be quite effective on some sources. However a high definition tv does exactly the same thing when it gets a SD source. Generally as long as the dvd recorder is connected via a digital signal (hdmi or dvi) is all thats important to get the best picture and the resolution setting won't make much difference. If you have a cheap high definition tv with poor upscaling then its likely the Panasonic dvd recorder will do a better job than the tv. The Panasonic upscaling won't be as good as some Toshiba XDE upscaling dvd players or standalone HDDVD players they do a much better job of it but its quite respectable upscaling on the Panasonic.

 

[dEANO42]

thank you, i have a 42" panasonic plasma... not yet sceen a hd film, bought some hd films to play, and of course they wouldn't... on the pan dvd rec, xbox is on it's way back from microsoft, after the ring of death, have a hdd hard drive for the side of it, so will try my dvd's using the xbox..
top man

 

[bonzobanana]

Note you need one of these things to play hddvds on the 360.

They won't work on the 360s internal dvd drive as that isn't a HDDVD drive. Your text implies your confusing a external hdd drive (hard drive) with a external HDDVD drive which is the image above.