Yeah I was expecting to have the black bars go away on a widescree HD TV. I learned yesterday they don't and have learned more on this thread. Kind of makes shopping for a widescreen anticlimatic, since I wanted the black bars gone. Watching widescreen movies on my present 26" CRT is getting old tho. I've also learned all the different LCDs, plasmas, DLPs all have warts of some kind and nothing is perfect.
I respecfully disagree with this "For video, is it better to go with components or S-video" Components are better yes, but here is why composite yellow is better than S video in this case. That set has a 3DYC/3D filter, when you use the S video, HDMI, or component, you BYPASS the 3DYC filter. Component is better than the 3DYC filter, it also carries the HD signal. Remember when S video came out, the sets then didn't have the filters these sets today have. The S VIDEO is a filter itself, and on a regular TV with a single comb filter, the S is better than composite because it is trying to separate color bleeding etc.... The composite has no filter... But todays 3DYC filters are better filter than S video, and if you use the S video you bypass these state of the art 3DYC filters. I had a monster S cable from my VHS and switched it to composite on my LCD Bravia XBR and because of the 3DYC filter, the picture was far better. For sets with 3d Digital or 3DYC filter here is the better to best scale S Video .... .. 3DYC filter is by-passed RF ...... 3DYC FILTER KICKS ON Composite ..... 3DYC FILTER KICKS ON Component ..... 3DYC filter is by-passed DVI/ & ot HDMI ..... 3DYC filter is by-passed
