I finally got a chance to sit down and watch a movie on the new DVD player and HDTV Sunday night. It was a much better test that watching isolated clips or freeze frames. Some scenes aren’t as clear or detailed as others, and watching a whole film gives you a better balance.
The result was pleasing; the upconverting on the DVD player did a good job of filling in higher resolution and large size of the TV. Keeping up with action sequences was no problem, and the text in the menus looked clearer. It should be good enough to keep me from thinking about HD DVD and Bluray for a while…
