Oppo's new DVD player upconverts, ups the ante

The best-selling disc players aren’t high-def models like Blu-ray machines — they're upconverting DVD players. Those are regular DVD players that sport an HDMI output for easy connection to an HDTV (HDMI carries both audio and video). Oppo has been the standard-bearer of this technology for a while, and today they announced a new model, the DV-983H. This one doesn't just upconvert; it also delivers Dolby Digital 7.1-channel sound and scales up images to 1080p with Anchor Bay’s VRS (Video Reference Series) technology, said to deliver better video than previous models.