What that piece of paper is saying is that the 950 will convert between s-video as needed, but it is recommended that you try to eliminate that additional step of work for the sake of getting optimal video quality. I would not connect to both the s-video and composite ports on any single input or output (as D'Arbignal points out, doing so with both inputs functional will most likely screw up the video signal -- and possibly even some of the hardware, as well). If you have a TV with s-video input and a DVD player with s-video output but your VCR only supports composite, I'd use s-video for the monitor out and the DVD input and use composite for the VCR. The 950 will upconvert the VCR's signal to s-video to the monitor out. Ideally, use s-video for as many devices as possible and use composite only when necessary. (As an aside, if your TV has composite only, I'd use composite for everything, but it sounds like this is not the case for you.)

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