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Old 03-04-2008, 10:44 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by StrayBullet View Post
The great thing about HDVD players is that most of them will up-convert all of your old DVDs to at least 480p. HD DVD is not dead!!
IIRC all DVDs are already encoded at 480p.

HDDVD players will upconvert to 720p/1080i/1080p depending on the player.

Blu-Ray does the same.

I use my HDDVD player as my upconverter, and use my ps3 for my Blu ray movies.

Right now if they're smart, HDDVD should market their players as a better alternative to Up-converting DVD players, seeing as how they only cost ~ $30 more...
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