janet

HTNut

As long as your new TV has an input for RCA connections or coax connections (99.999999% of hdtvs have both of those connections), you should be fine.

O-O

You can use the same VCR but if you're purchasing a HDTV capable of 1080p, you won't be getting the best capable picture from your old VCR. The old DVD players can display up to 480 lines of resolution. If you buy a new Blu-Ray dvd player, they can display up to 1080 lines of resolution making the picture appear much sharper and in higher definition.

1inxs

janet, Welcome to the DTVUSA Forum. You can continue to use your current DVD player to watch your DVD collection as well as adding new DVD titles to it.

What TV did you purchase? There sure are some excellent deals on TVs everywhere I look.

bicker

At this point, I really wouldn't buy a DVD player any longer. Blu-ray Disc players have become mostly affordable, and so to buy the older technology now seems like you're missing the boat. (Remember, Blu-ray players will play DVDs, just fine, perhaps even better than your old DVD player.)

So I would stick with whatever DVD player you have now, until you are ready to upgrade, or, if your DVD player dies, I would replace it with a Blu-ray Disc player.

staticMHZ

As long as the set has composite connections you're good to go. Although DVD players are 480i/480p standard definition so the picture will be blurry I'd imagine. Using the TV remote flip to video mode.

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bicker

It is amazing how they're cutting back on the analog connections in BD players. I've got HDMI Out, and Component Video Out, and I even have both TOSLINK and coaxial digital audio outputs, but in the analog arena, only composite video (and RCA ports for L + R audio, of course) -- NO S-video output!

O-O

I guess they figure if someone has an old enough TV, it has a higher probability of having a composite video output than a s-video. I could be wrong on that though. Wiki says that s-video lacks the bandwidth to carry HD content, so maybe there was some kind of conflict or extra modification if they stuck a s-video output on there. Just hypothesizing here, don't mind me.

1inxs

I believe they look at the HT market assume most who purchase a Blu-ray player have the latest in HT technology. The newer model HT receivers include more HDMI input/outputs and less component input/outputs. There is also the fact that upconversion isn't processed through the component connections. I think because HDMI is designed to protect copywrite infringement, it won't be another 18 months before all component connections are eliminated from DVD players. This will also stimulate a wave of new HT electronic upgrades through necessity.

bicker

Rather, I think it is just a matter of cost. Fewer connections, lower cost. S-video is, of course, 480i, but it is superior to composite video, including the ability to support a widescreen flag, which is used by my DVD-recorder to properly receive down-converted HD presentations and burn them onto DVDs for later play back on widescreen displays. Limited to composite video connections, the material ends up postage stamped (i.e., letterboxed and pillarboxed).