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Tips for Playing DVDs on Your New HDTV

This is a great solution I found to enjoy DVDs on my new SONY HDTV. I'll try to inform here without being boring. Here's the deal I will eventually purchase a HD / Blu-Ray DVD player but I'm not paying a thousand dollars while the two competing Hi-Def. formats battle it out. I'm old enough to remember the VHS versus BETAMAX videotape battle in the early days of video. SONY makes these really cool DVD players that connects via HDMI to my SONY HDTV but it UPCONVERTS the DVD so it takes advantage of the HD wide screen capabilities of the TV. It's not the same as a HD DVD but because it UPCONVERTS the signal it increases the lines of resolution so the picture quality is very good. I bought a 5 disk DVD model because I watch a lot of TV episodes on DVD and it's convenient being able to load 5 DVDs into the player. This works perfect for our needs while HD DVD players come down in price, plus I understand that you'll be able to buy HD DVD players that play both HD DVD and Blu-Ray, that makes the most sense to me so I'll wait for that but I love this slick little SONY Upconverting 5 Disk DVD player.

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