Blu Ray v DVD upscaling.

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Blu Ray v DVD upscaling.

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I've moved my DVD/recorder/player/up scaler to the back room tv...now I need a DVD player for my big tv.
Sainsburys are doing a deal on a wee blu ray player that upscales with 8 movies thrown in...I'm tempted but I could get an upscales for a few quid less.

Now what I want to know is there a big difference between upscales DVD and blu ray?
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Re: Blu Ray v DVD upscaling.

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Blu Ray is a good deal better quality providing your tv is good enough, not convinced by upscaling at all although it does make a fair difference on some dvd's but not others.
Read these 2 articles

http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/digi ... layers.php
http://hometheater.about.com/od/homethe ... pscale.htm

My own advice is buy a Blu Ray player as it will play the dvd's anyway.
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Re: Blu Ray v DVD upscaling.

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For sheer quality, Blu-ray is definitely better... however Blu-ray Discs are also more expensive than DVDs, but you could always just get the Blu-ray version of films you particularly like, and DVDs for the rest.
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Thanks Rooster, thanks Mike...Blu ray it is.
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