The bad news in relation to EDTV vs HDTV is that you need a completely new TV or projector to display both EDTV and HDTV. Most DVD players on market today are progressive scan, meaning they output EDTV signals, however, in order to view progressive scan picture in all its glory, you need a TV or projector capable of displaying it and that, unfortunately, means getting a new TV.

In terms of content, there is very limited TV content available in HDTV format, and there is still wrangling about standard for HD DVDs. However, every DVD disc on market can be displayed in EDTV right now.

Bottom line? Pretty much every HDTV projector or TV on market today will display EDTV as well. So while there may not seem like a great deal of point in getting a new display for limited HDTV content that is available today, it is worth it to watch your DVD collection in EDTV, difference between SDTV and EDTV really is that big.

Also, SD-5970 performs, what's known as 3:2 pulldown reversal. This basically means that it corrects distorion which is caused by translating 24 frames per second film to 30 frames per second video.

The Toshiba SD-5970 is relatively inexpensive for an HDMI DVD player, yet it marks a huge leap in terms of improvement in image quality. More expensive players are better still and best of all, becasue this is a relatively new market prices are sure to fall making even a very good HDMI DVD player within reach fo any DVD enthusiast.