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Hi folks, this weeks article is going to be about progressive scan dvd players and what they can do for your home theater systems. The first question you might ask is, what's the difference between progressive and interlaced(what most tv's use)? While both progressive and interlaced images are how the picture gets on your tv, there are big differences in how they get them there. What happens in the interlace method is that the electron gun at the back of your tv is shooting electrons at the front of ur tv screen to project the image, but it shoots it out of order, first it fires the odd numbered lines and then on the second pass it shoots the even numbered lines, and this whole process takes about 1/30th of a second which doesnt seem like a lot, but its only because what we are used that we accept it as being good, there is flicker and artifacts that show up and make the picture not as sharp or crisp as it can be. Now with the new technology of progressive scan, what is happening is that it is throwing the whole image up on the screen everytime instead of making two passes. It draws one full frame from left to right on the screen every 1/60th of a second, so what ur seeing on screen is a truer image with much less flicker(if any) and much fewer artifacts so you get to see a nice clean picture with no residual image. This is a really nice feature but the tough part is that it only works with high definition tv's and as we all know they are very expensive, but if you do have a HDTV definately go with a progressive scan player, for those of us with an old boob-tube, we'll have to wait till our rich aunt croaks. If you guys have any questions our thoughts on this or other subjects, e-mail us. Thank you and look for more interesting and informative stuff in the weeks to come.