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All things being equal...how do we approach that? The Denon DVD-1600 is one of
the best players ever produced in terms of video quality. It'll easily trump
many machines costing more than twice as much, but it retailed for $329. How do
we choose which LD player to compare it to? Is it fair to force a $329 DVD
player to compete aganist machines that cost over $1,000 at new? In any case,
this is debateable. LDs never suffered with the artifacting problems that DVDs
can have, and AFAIK never had to deal with the Chroma Upsampling Error that the
vast majority of DVD players exhibit. But some LD players did a much better job
of elminating noise than others, and crosstalk, etc...Assuming that the display
device, viewing conditions, cable quality, etc... remain static, which two
players are used makes a difference. A DVD-1600 and HLD-X9 would make a great
comparison, theoretically. But wether you're running the Denon in Progressive
mode or not will affect the performance. And if the movie you are using
happened to be very well mastered on LD and very poorly so on DVD, it will make
a difference. You could have 10 people conduct this test and get 10 varied
results.