I was watching some DVDs at my parents house who recently purchased an HDTV. Right now, we have a standard DVD player with progressive scan and connected with component cables. The quality of the DVDs are nice, but they aren't as 'breath-taking' as HDTV companies claim they will be.

And since it's probably going to be another year or so before Hollywood starts producing their movies onto HD-DVDs (or Blu-ray..whoever wins that format war), I was wondering that in the meantime, if its worth buying one of the few current DVD players (such as the Zenith DVB318 1080i Progressive-Scan DVD Player or the Samsung DVD-HD841 HDTV DVD player) that has an upconverter that brings the 480 resolution to 1080? I know that these players don't produce a "true" HD picture, but they must be a lot better than what I'm currently seeing, right? Has anyone seen the quality or can provide me with more info so I can decide whether its worth buying or waiting?