------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hey yes while playing HD dvds you dont have to upscale so much. therfore your TV seems very good. because it already displays HD movies and its a HD tv BUT, say you want to play a old regular DVD, then FFDshows upscaling features is like 500 times better than any of the hardware upscalers out there. You have to set your TV to output 1:1 though. (to not scale anything)- this is because you can adjust everything on your own. you can set the sharpness by your selfe and alot of interlacing aliasing features n filters. making the regular (look like shit dvd on a hd tv) almoast comparable with a hd dvd. BUT DONT SCALE BOTH FROM THE SOURCE AND ON THE TV. ONLY LET 1 machine scale. double scaling gives lesser quality. if both your computer and your screen scales the picture (its one time scaling to muchs) therfore to both scale with the computer and with the built in scaler of the tv at the same time will give you a wors image. PS Headakze if DVD playback is available for non reg users aslo. what majour feauture do you get when you register gameex???