Do you need to buy an HD DVD player to watch DVDs through your HD TV?

Question

Hey, I have a few questions which I hope you can help me with.

The first, as stated in the title, is if you need to buy an HD DVD Player to watch DVDs through your HD TV.

Secondly, Can you connect a normal dvd player to the Scart socket in the HD TV and still get HD results?

And finally, If I do buy an HD DVD (Upscaler) Player, do I have to buy HD DVDs for it to be able to produce HD results, or can I just use my normal dvds on the HD DVD Player and still get HD results?

I know the questions sounds almost the same but I am quite a novice at this HD malarky and would really appreciate if someone is able to help me.

Cheers!

Answer 1

NO NO NO

Answer 2

Hi,
I don't know an awful lot about hd but i do have a hd set up so il tell u from that.
If you have a HD-TV, it will be better quality than normal tv but it will not be HD until you connect it to a HD player for dvd's or connect it to Hd channels for TV.
Hd players are still very expensive. Your better off buying a PlayStation 3 which has the hd dvd player and also plays games but is cheaper than a normal HD dvd player.
Normal dvds will play in the hd dvd player, but HD dvds will not play in a normal dvd player. This is what i have found out!
Also using a normal scart lead will not produce HD quality. You will need to purchase a hd lead Or HDMI cable. These vary in price as the more expensive the better the quality.
I hope this helps

Answer 3

If you use a regular DVD player you will not receive an HD signal from the DVD player and therefore you will be watching the DVD in Standard Definition.

The DVD has to be high definition for an HD DVD player to work, if you have an upconvert, upscaler, it will convert the DVD to High Definition to the best of it's ability. Example, I Love Lucy, in black and white will not be high defnition, but better.


From the information on the internet Scart socket has nothing to do with HD.

Answer 4

To answer your question simply you can watch normal dvds through your hd tv but they wont appear in hd quality secondly you will only get the same results as if you played them through a normal tv as the hd bit doesnt kick in till you connect into the hdmi port on the hd tv and finally if you buy a hd dvd player ordinary dvds will play in it slightly improved quality but for the top effect you can get it`s better to use hd dvds as that is what the player and tv were designed to use to give best picture I hope this helps

Answer 5

You can hook an ordinary DVD player to your HDTV.

Not really. Hooking standard def things to the SCART will force the TV to up-convert/de-interlace for display - but it wont be HD quality.

Buying a HD player, but playing standard-def DVD's does the same thing as the previous answer: It takes the 480 lines of data, and up-converts it and fills in some stuff. In general - this looks better than if you let your TV do it, but it's not HD quality.

(Think of magnifying a newspaper, then running over the fuzzy letters with a ink pen to make it look better. It's still newsprint quality.)

Answer 6

No, but you should make sure there is a HDMI port in the back that will connect to a newer type of T.V.s or make sure the T.V. has same ports as the DVD players so you can watch DVDs. Depending on what type of wire connections you are going to use will depend on how much you are willing to spend and how well you want your screen picture you want it to be. The lowest quality would be AV jacks, then to SVIDEO cords, to coaxical cord, or optical cord, or HDMI for best quality pictures. Good Luck.

Answer 7

No. even a DVD looks gorgeous on a 1080p television. I watched the davinci code on my grandmothers 60'' 1080p dlp projection tv and it looked beautiful, using a regular dvd player.

Just use component cables, and it will look great.