Samsung DVD-HD950 HD Conversion DVD Player , Black
Samsung DVD HD950
Appearance: The black version looks a lot better than the silver one-silver version looks cheap-black version looks elegant, blue LED halo around power switch, white backlit display-looks nice and crisp. Features: comes with HDMI to HDMI cable and HDMI to DVI cable-extra value! Plays SACD's-big remote control with lots of functions. DVD player menu allows to set up sharpness, color saturation and brightness output -especially of value for people with LCD or DLP projectors. The picture quality through HDMI is very good, but a bit too soft with the default setting. I ran it on my Panasonic PT AE700u, and personally preferred to set the projector sharpness to a value in between 9-11, rather than kranking up the sharpness of the dvd player. Blacks through the HDMI port are really black, for my taste almost to black, but you can adjust the brightness to your own preference. It also allows you to enhance the black level output through component output. U.S. version plays region 1 dvd's only. I read about a way to make it region free, but that would only allow to play PAL dvd's etc. through component out, not through the HDMI port. Output options are 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i.