I'm not alone after all. Maybe the A/V manufacturing companies should try to improve composite video I/O instead of inventing new connectors i.e. s-video, component, DVI, RGB scart, HDMI. Of course the more ins and out you have give you more than enough flexability but, does the presence of s-video and composite connections for every A/V source needlessly drive up the cost of a 'platform' more than anything else? How many of you guys out there have spent a nice piece of change on higher quality composite video cables? How many of us have bought inexpensive digital cables? Offsetting penalties I say. I'm upgrading a perfectly operating piece of equipment to have one that has something on the rear of it that will take years for me to eventually use. And just when I decide to... here comes a another video standard-setting connector.