[RockinRight]

Not completely correct. A good upconverter CAN get damn close to Blu-Ray quality. If your TV is under 50” you probably won’t see the difference.

[Myrddin]

My HDTV is a 37" 1080p Mitsubishi. Ordinary DVDs upconvert nicely. The standard 5.1 audio sounds fine on either the Sony or Toshiba devices. I can definitely see an improvement in the video quality with BluRay vs standard DVD on the 37" screen. The uncompressed PCM audio offering on BluRay is much better than any of the bitstream formats.