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Originally posted by General Skanky:
Tony, how's the 139?

'tis a lovely bit of kit, probably great as a stand-alone player, but the difference between it and my Oppo/Lumagen in terms of picture quality isn't discernible.

I'm sure its ability with CD replay is pretty good (never tried to be honest!) but it isn't going to be as good as my 555. It's packed with some very sophisticated video processing and upscaling, but I don't need that either.

I've more or less decided to either go for Blu-Ray, maybe HD DVD, or just wait & see what happens! (i.e., undecided!)

If you'd like a demo, my E-mail's on my profile!

tonym,

In case you decide to go HD and need to throw your HDQ away, let me know

I'd gladly come for a demo. You only live in 652 miles from my home, or 11hrs and 10 minutes from my home, according to Google. Which is not SO far!

Bad news OdS! The Lumagen is happy to process HD video too!

You can pop in anytime - there's a big field out the back where you can land your helicopter...

Yes right, I thought a Lumagen would be a perfect choice to downscale 1080p to 720p on my plasma screen. Sadly, the HDP (which I'd choose) doesn't support 1080p/50-60 in. Only the Radiance can do that, but at quite a price! So, I'm still stuck at the same point: cheap HD player with limited upsacling ability? Pricy DVD player with good upscaling capacities? External scaler, sadly without support for 1080p? Or simply keep my good old system as it is and buy tons of cheap DVDs with the money I didn't spend on an upgrade??!

Good point about the field. I won't use the Falcon this time I guess, then.