Philips player won't play HD

[PowerFalcon]

I have the Philips DVP5992 DVD player. I got myself a new LCD TV capable of playing 1080p full HD. The problem, 1080p, including 720p won't play. I found this thread, which states the DVD player is not capable of playing 1080p or 720p and I'm stuck with 480p. Is there a possible work around ? I want to encode all my videos to 720p if possible, although I'd prefer 1080p, on occasion. I searched for firmware updates to the DVD player. The TV can only play back Audio files, not video files, which is unfortunate, otherwise it is a nice screen, although the warranty is short, nothing compares to the strength CRT TV had, mine fried

[aedipuss]

no

re-encoding dvd 480 to 720p or 1080p is dumb. you don't get any more resolution than you start with. the tv will handle expanding the 480 to fill the screen but it can never be made to look like a bluray. buy a bluray player and start collecting HD material.

[PowerFalcon]

The TV doesn't handle the 480p to fill the screen. I have HD material.

[deadmeow]

DVD players can only output SD, no HD. If you want to play HD material, you need a BluRay player or a media player that can handle HD encoded files. Now it is possible to slap some true HD files onto a DVD, but you won't be able to play that on any DVD player.

If you have the DVD player set up correctly, the 16:9 movies (dvd's) should stretch and appear in full screen on your television, but you will only get SD resolution of the DVD.

[johns0]

Just re-encode the hd material to dvd 720x480 and burn as dvd-video,get a blu-ray player later and keep the hd video to watch it then.

[Ai Haibara]

DVD players can only output SD, no HD. If you want to play HD material, you need a BluRay player or a media player that can handle HD encoded files. Now it is possible to slap some true HD files onto a DVD, but you won't be able to play that on any DVD player.

If you have the DVD player set up correctly, the 16:9 movies (dvd's) should stretch and appear in full screen on your television, but you will only get SD resolution of the DVD.

The DVP-5992 is an upscaling DVD player; it can output in HD (up to 1080p) if you have it connected to an HD TV through HDMI. It will still only allow SD video as source, though.

[PowerFalcon]

My model number is the DVP3680 which as mentioned does up-scaling. I need a HDMI cable from the TV to the DVP3680, then I will get 1080p, if I'm understanding correctly ? The TV accepts HDMI x3, not sure, if this is marketing or a unique HDMI cable ?

[smrpix]

The TV accepts HDMI x3, not sure, if this is marketing or a unique HDMI cable

Far more benign. It means your TV has 3 HDMI inputs.