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You just got a true 1080 (whatever) HD TV and man! You DVD movies have never looked better. You were more than likely pretty satisfied until you saw your picture in true HD. Now DVD looks like 1980\’s VHS copies to you. Blueray looks like a pretty good option, but you\’ve already got a couple of hundred movies on DVD and the thought of starting over in a new format is a little grating. The answer might be in HD DVD.

First off let\’s be one hundred percent honest; you are not going to get a player that will convert your old DVDs into a format that is optimum for HD TV. Old DVD formats are for DVDs and just do not have the data on them for that sort of picture. Expecting those kinds of results would be like taking your copy of Frampton Comes Alive on vinyl and expecting it to play in your CD player. It is just not going to happen. However an HD DVD player has some advantages that you might want to take a look at.

There is no such thing as \”true\” HD picture with a standard DVD, though in most cases your old DVDs do play fine. This has more to do with the limits placed on the DVDs themselves; they just cannot compete for clarity and audio accuracy that true HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs can provide. So if you are thinking you\’ll get a better picture out of an HD DVD player using your old DVDs, the difference will be nominal.

HD DVD players use a blue laser. What this does for you as a consumer is shorten the load time and allow for a more compressed disc. That is to say a standard sized DVD will hold more digital content. That\’s how HD DVD is able to deliver a crisper picture in high def and its older cousins are not.

An HD DVD player will save you some space in the entertainment center as well. With only one player under the TV instead of two or three, this kind of cuts down on the space you will be taking up. It\’s bad enough having to buy something new, it\’s even worse when that new thing just adds to the clutter a lot of people have.

The packaging is another attractive aspect of making the change from standard DVD to HD DVD. They all come in the same packaging so the boxes are all the same size. When you consider what life was like when you made the change from VHS to DVD, the value in this is clear.

Pricing on most HD DVD players is, for the most part less than a blu-ray player. Some of this has to do with competition and the like. But when you think about what you will do with your old DVD player and the fact that a lot of DVDs are being released now as duel \”DVD/HD DVD\” sets, this is a pretty enticing buy. For me, I moved my old DVD player to the bedroom, now I can watch my old DVDs and my new ones anywhere I want.

The real plus to it all is that you don\’t have to start over on your collection and you can keep one basic unit beneath your TV instead of two, three of four different boxes. For we older people who remember the betamax/vhs wars if the early 80s there is the added comfort of knowing we don\’t have to completely switch formats again or hope we guessed which was going to become the standard.

Zeeman Haus enjoys writing articles online on a variety of subjects. You can check out his latest website on 7 Inch LCD TV which reviews and lists the best LCD TVs to help you pick the best one for your needs.

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