Sony DVP-NS90V HDMI/SACD 1080i Upscaling DVD Player
Couldn't see a difference
I have an older Sony DVD player which I very happy with. Based on the reviews on Amazon, I bought the S90V with the hopes that it would have better compatibility with DVD+R DL disks I have burned. I also hoped to see an improvement in the picture with the upscaling. Not that the picture with my older DVD was bad, in fact, it's incredible. But I have heard so much pro and con about upscaling that I wanted to see it for myself. <br /> <br />First, the ability to handle DL disks seems no better or worse than my older Sony. Both units had similar trouble on the same \\"problem\\" disks. No improvement. <br /> <br />As to the scaling to 720p or 1080i, we kept flipping between component and HDMI and could see absolutely no difference at all (except for one issue). Three of looked at many scenes over and over and didn't see anything which made us perfer one another another. If there was a difference, it was very very close (our monitor was a Panasonic 50\\" plasma). <br /> <br />The only thing we did see was some color banding on the HDMI feed  in two scenes where there was graduated light to dark areas. This banding was NOT present in the component connection.  <br /> <br />It's a great DVD player with a wonderful picture, a sharp image with strong colors. The SACD sounded great. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to offer anything over my current two year old Sony DVD 480p player. So the player gets 4 stars (one down fo for the color banding), even though I am returning it. It just doesn't offer me a reason to keep it.