I, for one, am hoping composite in/outs will totally disappear on equipment. People can argue about quality of cables and sound from preamps, but I don't think anyone would try to say composite can look as good as S-video or any other higher level connection. I have no components without a higher level connection and would not hook something with composite only to my HT processor. I have a VCR upstairs. It is a JVC SVHS. I haven't even used it in about 5 or 6 years although my wife will tape a show on it form time to time.

I politely disagree that manufacturers should spend more time on a connection that will hopefully die out on equipment soon. If I had to run a composite connection, I would buy somehthing like a DVDO deinterlacer, otherwise on even the 32" CRT I have in my bedroom, it would be unwatchable.

I own no composite cables except what came with various source components when I purchased them. In my opinion, I would use a $10-15 S-Video cable before using a $100 composite cable. Composite is simply not a good way to convey video, no matter what a person does to enhance the performance of composite, S-Video will destroy it every time.

I am even someone who would argue that DVI looks no better than component, but composite should have been dropped years ago. The nature of the signal (cramming all the color information on one wire) just can't compete with other ways to convey video when the color information is split and sent across different wires.