Samsung DVD-HD931 HDTV Converter Progressive-Scan DVD Player
"Up-converting" is useless in a DVD player
OK, maybe I'm on a little bit of a \\"jihad\\" here against these up-converting DVD players, but bear with me because I do have a valid point.    Don't buy any DVD player because it can \\"up-convert to HD\\".  Evaluate all DVD players on whether they do everything else well, or have the connections you need (DVI, HDMI, etc.) or the price is in your budget.  This may be a fine DVD player, but don't buy it just because it can up-convert, and don't use the up-convert capabilities of this player even if you do buy it.    If your TV can accept 720p or higher input via DVI or HDMI, then it is already scaling the image to fit the native resolution of the display device.  And if it isn't doing a better job of it than any DVD player, then you bought the wrong TV.    They spend a lot of time going into the technology of image scaling and line interpolating in this product description, and it's all very accurate, but what I don't get is why anyone would think a $200 DVD player would do a better job of this than their multi-thousand dollar TV which has the scaling technology already built into it designed for the specific display device inside the box.    My final point:  If this up-coverting technology is such a good idea, why is Samsung the only one doing it?  Why not Pioneer, Panasonic, Sony, JVC, and Denon?  (Because they know it's usless technology).