Customer Review: Did require some adjustments to work with my Panasonic 42PV7 to get acceptable deep black levels (i.e. LOTR). Seems to look best in 1080i, not 1080p. Many cheaper upconverting DVD players looks great in foreground details, but have large "fuzzy/smeared" areas in the (less noticeable) background, but... more info
Customer Review: This magnificent beast is what I always wanted and it has saved me a lot of grieve. The Hitachi DV-RV 8500 is a combination of both a DVD and a Video player. This allows the user to not only play DVD's on this machine, but also Videos as well! There's even more than that as well. The player... more info