In order to have HD (or near-HD) quality on your display you need an HD DVD player or one that has upscaling, through the HDMI input. I'm not sure if I got your entire post right, but the reason why it's only a blue screen on HD is because its not getting any data through the HD input. If you don't have an HD-DVD player, check if your Philips has upscaling through HDMI output, and that will improve the quality by a considerable margin over the yellow video cable, but don't expect it to be HD quality though. I personally haven't tried HD at home (no funds ) but from my own experience even the component video has great results over the standard video input.
pero di ba pag may HDMI sya, HD capable na yun player right? or not necessarily? or maybe its just near HD quality because of the HD upscale?
actually, on the player it says HDMI. I have it connect thru the HDMI input of the LCD TV. When I put in a DVD I got from the US(reg 1), there's a message its a "non-HD disc or something, not supported etc ok?"... I choose ok and bluescreen comes out. switching to the analog video input of the lcd tv, may picture naman. pag bootleg sinaksak ko, ok naman sya thru HDMI output ng player at meron pic sa tv. ewan ko lang kung "video upscaling" ginagawa nya sa mga bootleg dvd's. what do you think? maybe huh?
hmmm... probably kelangan ko ng orig HD-DVD disc
kapag orig DVD disc(like my ultimated jordan dvd) parang hindi nya ginagamit yun HDMI output. is this normal? maybe I bought a crappy player hehehe
anyways...
Also, I have it defaulted to 1080i. ok lang naman to ano?
eto pala yun specs nya.
Philips DVP5900/05 DivX DVD Player with HDMI
Product Features:
HDMI digital AV connection for perfect quality
Video upscaling for improved resolution of up to 1080i lines
Displays High Definition pictures (JPEG) in true resolution
Progressive Scan for razor sharp and flicker free images
192kHz/24-bit audio DAC delivers high quality audio
Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, (S)VCD, DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x/6.x, MPEG4
Plays CD, MP3-CD, CD-R/RW & Windows Media Audio
Picture CD (JPEG) playback
Dimensions [WxHxD] 562 x 85 x 411 mm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP5900-05-DivX-Player/dp/B000AS1N1M