Should i buy a blu ray player for a 720p tv ?

I have a 26'' 720p LCD TV and i was wondering if its worth buying a blu ray for it, or should i just get a up-converting DVD player ?

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It is all up to you. I have a Sony blu-ray player and i love it! It shows a great improvement upon DVDs and the sound and video quality is out of this world. The blu ray player unfortunately will not be performing its best on a TV like yours since blu rays are 1080pi but still it will have great quality. You should even consider a playstation 3 since the console plays blu-ray and you can go on the internet, play games, etc. In my own personal experience and opinion (if money is not a problem) I would definitely get the blu ray player.

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720p tv with a 1080p blu ray player?

Christophe

Well, I have a 50 inch 720p flat screen and just recently got a 1080p blu ray player. I understand that because the tv is 720p it will not fully detail everything in 1080p but how much of a difference is there going to be? Will it still be better than if I had bought a 720p blu ray player?

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You're limited to the "weakest chain in the link," so to speak. So you're only getting 720p, as you said, which would be the case with a 720p or 1080p Blu-ray player. I'm guessing though there's not much difference in price between them, so you may as well get the better one in case you end up hooking it up to a 1080p set in the future. 720p for a 50" tv should be good enough as long as you're sitting probably 8' or more away from it, because even with 1080p you wouldn't be able to resolve the extra detail. There's online calculators and discussion about that topic if you want to check it out further.

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Should I get an Blu Ray Player or a DVD UpConverter?

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Rayford

I have an Xbox 360 running HDMI on a 32" 720p tv. Will a DVD Up-converter do a better job? Or should i just wait to get a Blu Ray Player? Or, on my tv, is it even worth it to get a blu ray payer?

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On a 32" 720p HDTV the improvement of Blu-ray over DVD will be small. And if you are watching DVDs on a Blu-ray player it may or may not be better than a DVD on an upscaling DVD player ... it depends on the quality of the video processor chip. Many upscaling DVD players don't do a great job, but more expensive ones (say > $60) aren't bad. On the other hand cheaper Blu-ray players (say < $150) generally don't do a great job upscaling DVDs either.

So really your choice is a "better" upscaling DVD player or a "better" Blu-ray player. Since you won't get much benefit from Blu-ray disks on your current HDTV unless you plan to upgrade it in the next year or so I'd opt for a "better" upscaling DVD player. The best choice is a used OPPO player. They are now discontinued, but the DV981 (See link) was generally considered one of the best upscaling DVD players ever made, so try to find one of those used.

FYI, I watch DVDs on a Blu-ray player that does better than average DVD upscaling and display via a 1080p projector on a 110" screen. While Blu-ray disks are a bit better, in most cases DVD looks pretty darn good. So, even though I can play Blu-rays I more often than not still buy DVDs because they are usually much cheaper ... and few movies really warrant Blu-ray.

Hope that helps ... Good luck.

How to make a blu ray player go to 1080i or 720p?

jake

I got a Sony blu ray player but my tv only goes to 1080i. I'll be connecting the player to my tv with HDMI but I've heard that it'll automatically go to 1080p with HDMI

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Since your TV is only 1080i, the HDMI will only only go to 1080i. If your TV is 1080p, the HDMI will go up to 1080p.
The HDMI automatically detects the highest resolution of your TV and plays it.
Or you can always go to the bluray players settings and adjust it to the resolution you want Manually yourself.

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If you buy a 720p tv and a 1080p blu-ray player, what will happen?

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sharbysyd

I saw that there are 720p and 1080p tv sets available. I also saw a 1080p blu-ray player. What happens if you play a 1080p blu-ray on a 720p tv? Will it work ok? Will the picture still be good?

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With HDTVs, they scale the image to the native resolution. If you have a 720p HDTV, it will scale low res and high res images to 720p. This will happen if you connect a BluRay player to a 720p TV.

The image will still be amazingly sharp like HDTV programming.

Is is possible to get a 1080p picture from a 1080p blu-ray player that's connected to a 720p tv?

angel_girl

My friend says that when she plays a movie on her blu-ray player, she gets a 1080p picture, even though her tv is only 720p. Is this possible?

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No.

All HDTV's convert the input video signal to the resolution inside the TV.

This means your friends BluRay player is out-putting 1080 but the TV then down-converts the video to 720 for processing and display.

Same way if you feed the HDTV a standard def DVD which is 480. The TV will up-convert the video to 720.

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