Thanks very much for the description. We are upgrading video
equip't this year, and finding the techie swamp rather dense.

Eisboch wrote:
BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode. If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set is
interlaced).


Now there's something that nobody else has told me.
Excellent series of posts!

The upgraded video equipment is on our boat: the aft cabin
now sports a swivel-arm mounted 19" LCD, a DVD-R + VHS box,
and a CD/MP3/DVD changer/receiver, and a subwoofer. For
right now, the audio is not fully enabled, partly due to
space constraints. We have 4 pairs of speakers, all of which
need to be rewired as well as switched.... boat work is
never done.

Fair Skies
Doug King