DVD Upconversion

[chesterfield]

i currently have a 50" Vizio Plasma that has built in DCDi® by Faroudja. Would I get any advantage using an upconverting DVD player at the same time?? I currently am using a Panny F87S via component and the picture is great, i wonder, is the TV up converting the DVD's for me?????

[jman98]

I'm surprised edDV hasn't answered this one. My understanding is that your TV is doing the upconverting, so you might not get any advantage with an upconverting player. I have a Samsung 1080p LCD HDTV and it has a great picture. I'm just using componnet connections too with my old Philips DVP-642 and the picture is great, much better than I would have expected. My DVP player can't upconvert, but it can send out progressive video, so that's what I set it to do. If I remember correctly, Faroudja makes really good chips, so it probably would be upconvert better than a lot of DVD players anyway.