Can DVD-players display 720p pictures?

[onidarbe]

I have jpg's on a CD from more then 1600x900 pixels.
The HD-ready LCD TV (Panasonic TX-26le8f) connected through HDMI with the DVD has 768*1366 pixels.
Pïctures look very ugly!!!

Do I need to buy a blue-ray or are there DVD-players that can read HD-jpg pictures and display them in HD ?

Thank you,
Michel

[yoda313]

Try looking for "upconverting" dvd players. They should be able to do hd pictures. Just read the specs before you buy them. Of course if the picture is bigger than your tv the tv will "downscale" the picture to fit the screen.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Some Blu-ray players(Panasonic,Sony,etc) can display HD from a SD or USB device, my Philips DVD player(5982) has an HD Mode.

[onidarbe]

Try looking for "upconverting" dvd players. They should be able to do hd pictures.

Thanks you for responding, though I'm not looking for "upconvertig". I want the full 720p resolution to come from the jpg not from some calculating software.

So the question remains. Can DVD-players handle 720p jpg's without losing resolution?

If so, then there is something wrong with my Panasonic DVD-S511 and LCD TX-26le8f. Although I'm using a HDMI cable and reading hi-resolution jpg's from a CD, the picture's look very low-resolution!

[guns1inger]

A standard DVD player, even one with HDMI and 1080i upscaled output, will downscale your images to SD resolution first, then upscale them again to match whatever you have set your HD output to be.

You need a player capable of displaying the photographs at HD resolution, which at this time means a Bluray player, PS3, or media player like thew WDTV.

[hech54]

If you are trying to compare a 1600x900 camera image to the size of a television.....there is your mistake. That size pic from a portable camera with a tiny sensor will indeed look like crap.

[jagabo]

My Philips 5990 displays JPEG images with better than SD DVD resolution. I have it hooked up to a 1920x1080 LCD HDTV via HDMI at 1920x1080p60. I don't know exactly what resolution it uses for JPEG images but, for example, a 1920x1080 or 1440x1080 image looks much better than a 720x480 or 640x480 image.

[onidarbe]

A standard DVD player, even one with HDMI and 1080i upscaled output, will downscale your images to SD resolution first, then upscale them again...

What is "SD resolution" and how many pixels is this?

[yoda313]

Standard Resolution is not high def. It was what was around for the longest time before hd became possible.

It is 720x480 for ntsc and 720x576 for pal.