If a DVD player supports High Definition output, it doesn't necessarily mean it supports High Definition DVDs. It simply means it can "
upscale" the DVD's picture to one or more HD resolutions, specifically
720p and
1080i (for a full explanation, see "
BuzzyPedia's Guide to buying DVD Players"). The Denon DVD-1920
isn't a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player.
Progressive Scan Video means the DVD player is capable of sending each picture frame at once to your TV, as opposed to splitting up a frame in odd and even line "fields", and sending these fields separately (called "
Interlaced Video"). Progressive scan gives a better, more clear and stable picture. Interlaced video tends to jitter a lot.
A HDTV ready TV has a (much) higher resolution than the movie on a DVD disk. If your DVD player doesn't upscale the low resolution DVD content to the high resolution TV picture, your HDTV
will. It's just a question of which will do a better job. The reason I went for a DVD player that can upscale as well, was because I had no idea what my TV's upscaling capabilities were. This way I could switch to the DVD's upscaling if the upscaling of the TV sucked. Still following me here?
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