I'm not sure if I am undestanding your question correctly, but you are using two different inputs on your tv, (one S-video and one component video). Therefore, you will have to select which input you want to watch using your tv's remote. If the 950 upconverted every input to "component," then you could get away with never changing your tv's input, unfortunately it only upconverts to S-video. You could use your DVD player's S-video output and connect it to the 950 instead of component and now you could get away from switching the tv's input but you just sacrificed your progressive scan feature of the player. Hope I understood your question and that this helps you understand that you will have to switch the tv's input between your S-video and component video sources.