01-25-2008, 09:57 PM
What jdc said. First off, I presume you know that progressive and upconversion only work if you have an HDTV (i.e. 720p or better). All or most of the HDTVs have their own upconverters. Some are good, some are crappy. My Sony HDTV's upconverter is great. Adding an upconverting DVD player (I got it because my old player broke, not because I wanted upconversion) made absolutely no difference to the picture quality. Oh, another thing. Due to the idiocy of the media companies, upconverting is deliberately disabled for most DVDs if you are connected to the TV with anything but HDMI. Annoying but true.