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My tv is 1080p, watched a few dvds on in HD and the difference to my old tv is soooo much better. I watch a lot of pay to view movies (NO, not thoes type!!), cant see the benefit tho as no connection for HD on my NTL box! Would the HD to SCART adaptor give me a higher definition on my tv then? I do use `good` quality scarts!

SCART -> HDMI adapters primarily take the analog signal and turn it into a digital one that can be sent over the HDMI interface. They do the upscaling as a secondary job, however I cannot comment on the quality of the upscaling, as I have never used one. Some upscalers are great at what they do, others can be lame. Your TV will itself upscale the picture (it needs to so a 570 picture can fill the screen), but an external upscaler seems to make a lot more difference with regards quality.

As for a DVD player with HDMI out, it won't work, it needs to be a DVD Recorder because it needs to be able to display a source other than the TV. On a DVD Recorder, like a VHS Recorder, it can take a source such as SCART or S-Video to record onto the DVD, and you can view this source on your TV. If it is connected to your TV and upscaled via HDMI, then whatever source is on the DVD Recorder, will also be converted and upscaled. A DVD player has no reason to display any other sources (it isnt going to record to need any other source) so it wont do it im afraid.

I cant watch TELEVISION on a LCD or similar.. CRT is the best no problems it lets you see the picture and lets you here the sound.. What more do i want ?? I dont need HD.. Why? Because why should i pay loads of money for something i already have.. I only need to watch and here it.. Not to have fancy upscalers and bullshit.. Seriously though some of these LCD's are very poor arnt they.. Maybe im being old lmao but seriously untill its properly sorted out why should we waste our money cause they change things every day.. ???