It might look just like a DVD player, and, well, it is - but this is not your ordinary DVD player. Inside the DVD-HD850 is Samsung's special Hypervision chip, a deviously clever little device that takes conventional DVDs and scales them up to highdefinition resolution. This is especially good if you've just forked out several thousand bucks for a brand new widescreen high-definition television, and you're a bit miffed that DVDs still look like they used to on your old box. The DVD-HD850 will scale up a conventional DVD to the highdefinition resolutions of 576p, 720p or 1080i, which improves the sharpness of the picture when viewed on the big screen. It's not quite the same thing as having a true next-generation, high-definition DVD, but until the industry stops its schoolyard squabble over Blu-ray versus HD-DVD, then the Samsung DVD-HD850 is the next best thing.