# Upconversion DVD Player?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upconversion-dvd-player/395413>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upconversion-dvd-player/395413 "2007-03-10T21:44:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upconversion-dvd-player/395413/21 "2007-03-14T18:54:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Engineer Dude]  
You could use a [HDMI to DVI](http://www.optimization-world.com/products/catid/4.html) cable. You’ll have to hook the sound to your tv (or through your receiver) separately, since HDMI is both video and sound, but DVI is only video.  
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Thanks! That sounds like the way to go since up-conversion via component DVD players seem to very rare and more expensive.  
Will I still get the picture up-conversion improvement this way?

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**Author:** ![Capa84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Capa84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capa84)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upconversion-dvd-player/395413/22 "2007-03-15T01:35:26Z")

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We had a booth at our recent home/patio show, and were running an Sony upconverting DVD player into a Sony 40" LCD on one side, and a Blu-Ray player into a Sony 1080P LCD projection tv on the other, and the difference was amazing…there really is no comparison if you can match up the new HD formats with a true 1080P display.

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