best used DVD players (non-universal players)

[JSE]

Hey Tarheel,

My buddy just bought this player. It seems to do a great job i think he has had it for about 2 months or so and he really likes it. Seems well built and a pretty good buy. Might check it out? Seems like Topspeed has/had a CA amp. He may be able to speak to their general quality? Could be wrong about that though.

http://www.spearitsound.com/Cambridg...udio_DVD55.asp

JSE

[Lexmark3200]

That looks like a nice deck, as I will soon be in the market for a replacement player for the Panny deck I had packed up and shipped from my previous residence; its a non-progressive DVD Audio/DVD Player Panasonic deck, but Im looking for something a bit more upscale from this model and I dont utilize the DVD Audio functions anyway.....

Does that Cambridge player you sighted with the link have the upconversion feature to make standard discs look like HD? I didnt see it in the link......

[nightflier]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the $300 price range, isn't there significant difference between different chips (like the Faroudja) and the quality of the video?

Personally I'm gona stick with my current player until the smoke clears over the BluRay-HDDVD battlefield, but if I had to buy a new $300 player right now, I'd look for the best possible picture quality.

[Lexmark3200]

"Personally I'm gona stick with my current player until the smoke clears over the BluRay-HDDVD battlefield"

You know something, you make a really good point.....I didnt even think about that.....what if we upgrade our decks now before HD DVD explodes on the scene and makes all our titles we have now obsolete anyway, unless its gonna be backward compatible.....I think you may be right in sticking with our current players, even if it DOESNT do the upconverting thing like Im looking for.....because HD DVD is on the horizon, and serious HT enthusiasts are going to have to see if its going to be worth the upgrade from standard DVD and IF we are going to have to begin purchasing ALL our titles in our collections all over again.....

God, I hope not........