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EXPIRED - Toshiba SD-480 1080P Upscaling DVD Player - £37.82 & Free Delivery @ electrical 123 - Bargain!


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* DVD Player with Multiformat Playback (inc DivX, MP3 & JPEG)
* 1080P Up-Scaling
* PAL Progressive
* Regza Link
* HDMI output
* Scart Connection

I recently purchased a HDTV and needed an upscaling player and this ticks all the boxes, picture quality and sound is superb. Ordered last Monday, selected delivery date and arrived on time 2 days later.

Most Toshiba products are actually manufactured in the UK, and come with decent, detailed English instruction manuals which adds a further touch of quality to the product.

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How come you needed an upscaling DVD player? Every HDTV upscales whatever you plug into it. Do you think a £37 dvd player has better upscaling than your TV?
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As my old DVD player did not have component output, I know for sure that a direct HDMI connection will produce a better picture quality image than the TV upscaling a digital image converted to analogue and passed through a scart lead. I have a Tosiba 42XV555DB and have to say the HDMI quality produces much deeper, vivid colours.
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As my old DVD player did not have component output, I know for sure that a direct HDMI connection will produce a better picture quality image than the TV upscaling a digital image converted to analogue and passed through a scart lead. I have a Tosiba 42XV555DB and have to say the HDMI quality produces much deeper, vivid colours.
Ah, ok I see your reasoning then
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2% quidco too

Good deal for a cheap dvd player

Addidas Addict, even a £40 player will likely upscale better than a sub £300 tv
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How come you needed an upscaling DVD player? Every HDTV upscales whatever you plug into it. Do you think a £37 dvd player has better upscaling than your TV?
so a dvd player connected to hdtv via scart will benefit from better pic quality because tv is hd?
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No USB port for watching films unlike the Phillips which is the same price.
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No USB port for watching films unlike the Phillips which is the same price.
which phillips one is it please.
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Philips 5980 and 5990 are good player I have both and the Sumvison phoenix which is going in the bin as its utter garbage and remote doesn't work

I am on look out for another player but cant really afford another £60 one to replace the Sumvison cxxp which I only used about 5-6 times in 9 months

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which phillips one is it please.
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This may be a silly question, but can I plug my Wii into the SCART socket of this and use it as passthrough/converter into the HDMI port on my monitor? I ordered one of those Dell 1080P monitors without thinking about how the heck I'm going to get my Wii onto it!
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so a dvd player connected to hdtv via scart will benefit from better pic quality because tv is hd?
Don't mistake upscaling with improving picture quality.

If you feed an hdtv with an sd source via any input the tv will have to scale that input to the native resolution of the screen. Scaling however is not something that will improve picture quality, in fact it is more likely the reverse especially if the scaler is a poor one. Very good upscalers can give nice results but these won't be found in dvd players of this price.

Scaling a source received over scart though will not produce great results so buying a dvd player that connects via hdmi or component would be advisable, however there is every chance that sending a none scaled signal via hdmi to the tv and letting it do the scaling will produce a better result than letting the dvd player do it itself.

Things also get more complicated when you start adding in de-interlacing as well as scaling
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Just been looking for a HDMI DVD as a Xmas pressie for my dear old Mither & bingo here it is :-)
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jonstone12:
Don't mistake upscaling with improving picture quality.

If you feed an hdtv with an sd source via any input the tv will have to scale that input to the native resolution of the screen. Scaling however is not something that will improve picture quality, in fact it is more likely the reverse especially if the scaler is a poor one. Very good upscalers can give nice results but these won't be found in dvd players of this price.

Scaling a source received over scart though will not produce great results so buying a dvd player that connects via hdmi or component would be advisable, however there is every chance that sending a none scaled signal via hdmi to the tv and letting it do the scaling will produce a better result than letting the dvd player do it itself.

Things also get more complicated when you start adding in de-interlacing as well as scaling
I have experimented with sending non scaled signal from the player (i.e the 570p option) but still think difference is noticeable. Picture quality is just as much about the richness of the colour as it as about looking 'unpixelated' , but using the 1080P option is the dogs *****!
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Nexy:
This may be a silly question, but can I plug my Wii into the SCART socket of this and use it as passthrough/converter into the HDMI port on my monitor? I ordered one of those Dell 1080P monitors without thinking about how the heck I'm going to get my Wii onto it!
Unfortunately not - that would involve analogue to digital conversion. You could use the Wii component cable and then convert to hdmi using something like this.

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