DVD Players with upscalling

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  • john.h
    john.h Posts: 349 Forumite
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    £54 from richersounds https://www.richersounds.com/tv-home-cinema/blu-ray-dvd/panasonic-dmpbd84b.html

    John..
  • [Deleted User]
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    john.h wrote: »
    £54 from richersounds
    Still £20 dearer than the OP wants to pay...
  • Grenage
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    Moneyineptitude wrote: »
    Your suggestion is twice the price the Op wants to pay.

    3D is dead.

    3D is dead on TVs; it's pretty excellent on my 130" projector screen.
  • spannerzone
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    Your flat screen TV will almost certainly upscale as well as any budget DVD player, so you're very unlikely to see any difference.

    Upscaling DVD players is mostly a marketing gimmick. Every flatscreen has to have the ability to upscale, it's doing it all the time with standard definition broadcasts to upscale to fill the higher definition screen your TV has.

    Never trust information given by strangers on internet forums
  • Carrot007
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    spannerzone wrote: »
    Every flatscreen has to have the ability to upscale, it's doing it all the time with standard definition broadcasts to upscale to fill the higher definition screen your TV has.

    You mean every HD TV. I have an SD flatscreen from way back.

    And the upscalers on cheap TV's are really bad, unless you spend hours tweaking the settings. And even then....

    I have cheap LG bluray players.(£30ish in supermarkets, maybe a bity more therse days). Ignore the silly smart/app ones and you will be fine. They also play pretty much anything from a usb stick. Well except H265 which would need a 4K player.

    In fact to get a good upscaler will cost a few hundred on it's own. But hey! Cheap blurays do a much better job that your TV unless the TV cost over £1000.
  • ashe
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    Moneyineptitude wrote: »
    Your suggestion is twice the price the Op wants to pay.

    3D is dead.

    Yet I watch 3D films and content all the time at the cinema and at home...
  • [Deleted User]
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    ashe wrote: »
    Yet I watch 3D films and content all the time at the cinema
    Well, cinema3D continues ..for now
    ashe wrote: »
    and at home...
    All TV manufacturers have ceased production of 3D capable sets I'm afraid..
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