I'm interested in purchasing this DVD Player with HDMI upscaling. On another Review site "Vijay Reddy" said:

"The one problem many of you may face is - all upconversion features are available under 16:9 compressed screen size format, and not under standard 16:9 format, and 90% LCD TVs are of this type, so Pioneer upconversion features become useless if you happen to have one of these TVs.. so check first before buying."

First, I have an HDMI Plasma (Panasonic th-42pz70) but second I don't understand what he means (and neither do Pioneer Cust. Service though they pretended they did).

Can anyone throw light on this please.

Does he mean 4.3 pictures will be upscaled but 16.9 wont ?? I dont know how this helps with 16.10 either

fancy another player ??

What I think they are trying to explain is......

Upconversion features are available on 16x9 HDTV's but not on 16x9 SDTV's.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/home-c...layer/comments

I take it, it was this article ?

I suspect it is a case of speaking out of that part of one's anatomy more commonly used for sitting on.

Any SD resolution picture whether it is 4:3, 16:9 or any other aspect ratio will have to be upscaled to be displayed full screen on any HD resolution TV, whether it is 720 or 1080.

I can't think of any DVD I have seen that does not use anamorphic widescreen format, ie where a widescreen picture is compressed horizontally to fit a 4:3 frame then expanded out by the TV to 16:9 again. So I have no idea what this talk of Uncompressed vs Compressed 16:9 is all about.

If this "Vijay Reddy" was talking about SD widescreen TVs vs HD widescreen TVs he/she was not exactly making it very obvious. And SD/HD is not what immediately springs to mind when talking about "compressed screen size format" and "standard 16:9 format".

No idea but I would point out in case you were unsure that this will work okay with your plasma. Whether it will give a better picture when in upscaling mode than in 576i or 576p you will only find out by actually comparing the different modes at home.

Thank you Guys. I think I will move towards purchase.

However I have never seen a piece of equipment like this disappear so quickly off the internet. In half (of today) it has become mainly "obsolete"/ "out of stock" *so a couple of deals I was looking at this morning have gone. Probably buy at the, now, higher price at one store rather than the newer DV610V.

* Still listed by Pioneer.