Best Projector/DVD combination

Flava Leoni, I have seen some of your posts asking about DVD players. Have you done any research on the Camelot Technology Roundtable? This player is widely regarded as second only to the Ayre D-1 at $13000. The Roundtable retails for $3500, but I have been seeing them used around here lately for as low as $2300. The Roundtable has just about every digital goody that Camelot has to offer in the one chassis and might be what you are looking for.

For further details goto Camelot-tech.com and see:http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_4/dvd-benchmark-progressive-shootout-12-2000.html Here, you will see a DVD player shootout and see where the Camelot beat up on some fru fru Theta stuff. Also goto audioasylum.com and see some really cool pics. I like mine plenty. Just a thought.

Bmpnyc believes correctly on the upsampling, my only complaint(s) on an otherwise perfect player is that the progressive output at the component video outs cannot be turned off to interlaced (means that you cannot utilize components if T.V. is not 480p capable and if so, you gotta use s-video for 480i), and the thing doesn't do CDR/CDRW's. This really bites because I have a ton of CDR's. (I had to pull my junky Denon out of the closet for CDR playback).

Oh yeah, and I don't really like the fact that it shuts itself off after 20 minutes or so if not actively used--wish it would just stand at attention for me. Other players are starting to use the same video chipset that the Ayre and the Camelot are using though, just not sure which ones.

Flava, It isn't a problem with the player, it is a problem with the player's poor, broke, owner that can't afford to go out and just buy everything he sees and likes, in this case, a progressive ready T.V. Put another way, I can't use all it's performance. Put another way, it won't affect you at all if you run it into a hi-scan projector.

Bmpnyc, you got it all down. I did ask the guys at Camelot whether an all in one player was in the works (if so I could bide with something else). They said no. Also, the guys at Camelot (Mel shilling) are about the best I've yet seen in terms of customer support. Bent plum over backwards when we thought we had a problem with the player. Turns out, the player's owner is not only poor and broke, but also stupid from time to time. :-)

I would get the Camelot; then again, I did get the Camelot.