Originally Posted by nichomach
My bold; that's rather the point, isn't it? There're a lot of less than brilliant HD TVs out there where the panel's OK, but the supporting components (including those used for upscaling) are a bit cack. It's a bit like the situation with TFTs, where some budget screens are awful on analogue but absolutely great on DVI. Perhaps what they're focussing on is that mass market where a good relatively inexpensive upscaling DVD player could turn a mediocre screen into a very good one?
A good point you had raised there, I completly forgot all about some of the poor HD displays. I haven't used any of the various HD upscaling dvd players Ebuyer, Dabs and the rest sell but I wonder if based on the ability of those players whether perhaps Toshiba are a bit late to market? Downloadable film content I can't see being a selling point even to movie buffs...
If I go blu ray which eventually I shall do I'll be buying a combo drive so I can enjoy films on either format, just makes much more sense to me.