Samsung DVD-HD960 Up-Converting DVD Player
Sunning 1080p images from standard DVD's
I bought this Samsung HD-960 DVD player to go with a Samsung HL-S5687 Digital light projector TV expecting a moderate increase in picture quality. Boy was I pleasently surprised when almost all of the DVD's I have played so far look much better in 1080p.  From previous experience I knew the Farujda DCDI firmware to be a cut above.  These pictures are several cuts above what I expected. <br /> <br />The honest 1080P Blu-ray demos of the Samsung BP-1000 I have seen in the stores are better yet. But many extra features - extended cuts, deleted scenes, making of featurettes are missing from the first Blue-ray movies that the dealer had to offer.   <br /> <br />Patience at start up is a key to quality success.  The two computers - The Samsung DLP TV and the Samsung DVD player - need to successfully talk to each other over the HDMI cable.  This usually happens by the second try.  I turn the TV on first. Then I turn the DVD player on.  If this produces noice bars, I turn off the DVD player, wait ten seconds, and turn it back on.  <br /> <br />Running at 1080p seems to use up enough of the microprocessor ability so some of the TV screen expanding features are not available.  But the 1080p picture displays motion better, and I prefer this mode.  <br />