Xbox 360 DVD player VS PS2 DVD player?

Basically, I want to watch Lord Of The Rings on DVD but my 360 is dead.

Probably not, but it depends on how you had your 360 hooked up to your HDTV in the first place.  If you had it hooked up by VGA or HDMI, then you were watching an upscaled version of that DVD and it will probably be significantly better than anything the PS2 could do.  Otherwise, it may be about the same.

hell no, specially if you upscale it to 720p-1080i/p which you need an hdmi connection to do and the ps2 wont even do it, it can upscale to 480p though.

 

 if I hooked up the 'ol PS2 to the HD-TV would the DVD playback be the same quality as the 360's DVD player?

 

"Gizmo said:

 

 if I hooked up the 'ol PS2 to the HD-TV would the DVD playback be the same quality as the 360's DVD player?

 

No, the PS2 DVD playback is actually HIGHER QUALITY than the 360 playback.  During tests the 360 DVD image quality was rated as poor/average on many sections.  the only advantage to the 360 is Upscaling, but since all HDTVs upscale anyway, there is no real advantage.

Your best bet is a PS3 or a standalone DVD player like a denon or if you don't want to spend a bunch, Oppo makes very cool feature rich DVD players w/ HDMI, upscaling, firmware updates, region free etc..."

"hell no, specially if you upscale it to 720p-1080i/p which you need an hdmi connection to do and the ps2 wont even do it, it can upscale to 480p though."

hm well if you turn the xbox off it remrmbers exactly where you were (which is awesome)

and it upscales (also awesome)

This is irrelevant to the actual topic at hand (and not in any means meant as a troll or a gloat) but I put a DVD into my PS3 for the first time the other day (seriously!) and was blown away with the upscaling. It does an amazing job.

If the 360 does similar upscaling (which I'm not sure it does but presume so) then I assume you won't get anywhere near as good picture quality out of the PS2.

"Gizmo said:

 

 if I hooked up the 'ol PS2 to the HD-TV would the DVD playback be the same quality as the 360's DVD player?

 

No, the PS2 DVD playback is actually HIGHER QUALITY than the 360 playback.  During tests the 360 DVD image quality was rated as poor/average on many sections.  the only advantage to the 360 is Upscaling, but since all HDTVs upscale anyway, there is no real advantage.

"WilliamRLBaker said:

"hell no, specially if you upscale it to 720p-1080i/p which you need an hdmi connection to do and the ps2 wont even do it, it can upscale to 480p though."

Seeing as video content on a DVD is in native 480p, it wouldn't need to upscale it. ;-)"

• At 25 fps (usually used in regions where PAL is standard):

• At 29.97 or 23.976 fps (usually used in regions where NTSC is standard):

The following formats are allowed for MPEG-1 video:

• 352 × 288 pixels MPEG-1 at 25 fps (Same as the VCD Standard)
• 352 × 240 pixels MPEG-1 at 29.97 fps (Same as the VCD Standard)