You've got your DVD player set up in the "ideal" manner -- digital audio to a DD/DTS receiver and component video to the TV. When you get DirecTV, you will have composite and possible S-Video. Since either way, it will be the only video source in that format, you may as well go directly to your TV set -- the only reason to route the video through the 1050 is if you have multiple sources that use the same format (several composite video sources, for example) so that you can use a single input on the TV for all of the sources.

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