Hi Colin,

Blu ray players also have up scaling 1080p for standard DVD, if your not in a hurry to get one, Toshiba is planning to launch a player that up scales standard DVD, to a claimed higher resolution than blu ray??? - a date has not been released yet !!! link:   http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2108  

Hi Colin,

I bought the toshiba HDef DVD player thinking that people with minds on saving cash would go for this, rather than blu ray because of cost of player, but then play station kiled that, - there is one other player that is the same idea as toshibas new standard, this was reveiwed on this site this month, but cant find link, but player was around £1000, hope toshiba not expecting consumer to pay that sort of cash ???       Cheers .......Carl. 

Hi Colin, All,

Found the link:   http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2073 lets hope it is as good as they say ?

Hi Colin, All, - NEWS - NEWS - NEW 

THIS is it, its out now, Toshiba's new XDE technology, up scales standard DVDs to near HIDEF standards, will we buy or wait for a DVD recorder ?  decisions - decisions !!!  FOLOW LINK :

http://www.toshibaxde.com/index.html