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Originally posted by gonk:
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.)



Joe's TV actually is progressive. At some point, it'd probably be worth getting an iScan and then running the whole thing through component video. That's what I do with my system: progressive scan DVD player uses component, secondary non-progressive dvd player uses S-Video to my iScan, VCR uses composite to my iScan, and my recently sold laserdisc player used S-Video to my iScan. Then I simply use the component out from the iScan as the video source for the VCR, laserdisc, and secondary DVD player.

Jeff