What progressive scan DVD player to buy

[Steven Sigel]

Several people here have mentioned that they can get a picture that's better with a DVD player than a computer -- I've seen just the oposite with my DVD players (which are not progressive scan)...

Anyone have a reccomendation for what a good DVD player to get would be that would have a picture that compares to (or is better than) my laptop computer?

[Michael Coffin]

Hi Steve,

As you know, I tried some high end and low end progressive scan DVD players with my Sharp PG-M20X and NONE compared to the quality of even an inexpensive SVGA card driven by a computer.

Composite and S-Video aren't even an option, the quality just wasn't there.

-Mike

[Dave Harris]

The one piece of gear where you can get off cheap is the DVD player. I highly recommend the Philips 727 which you can get at Target for $79. It's progressive scan and it plays everything I have thrown at it, including, DVD- R, DVD+R, DVD+-RW, VCD, SVCD. Anything I have burned plays. And I can give you the code to enter via the remote to make it into a Region 0 (all) player. The only thing that could be better with it is the remote, which is a bit small and doesn't light up or glow, otherwise it's ok.

Using the component outputs to the projector and optical audio to the amp, picture and sound are outstanding. I think that whether a computer or DVD player look better is mostly within your projector.

[Xander van der Merwe]

I actually answered your question in another thread but go for either the Momitsu V880 or the Bravo D1 - these are quite a league above any normal interlaced or progressive DVD player.

[Rich Powers]

Last year I bought the Akai DVPS-760 progressive scan dvd player from Samsclub. Shipping and all my grand total was only about $115.

I use it to play dvd's and vcd's on my my Sharp XG-11000U and it does a fine job... however, the funny thing is that I do not find it neccessary to set my DVD player to the progressive scan setting for it to display properly through the video projector, even though I was told it was neccessary that I do so.

Go figure

[Xander van der Merwe]

the funny thing is that I do not find it neccessary to set my DVD player to the progressive scan setting for it to display properly through the video projector, even though I was told it was neccessary that I do so.you will probably find that your particular Sharp projector has an excellent deinterlacer built in (the thing that converts interlaced to progressive) and hence you cannot really see the difference. I believe that as projectors mature they will get better and better at this.