FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A REAR PROJECTION/PLASMA I STRONLY RECOMMEND COMPONENT VIDEO INPUT - IT BRINGS DVDS TO LIFE - THERE IS ALSO MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT IN EROS DVDS - IE CRAP TO SEMI-CRAP!!!

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Indeed ranj, it brings picture to life and if u have a switch to go back and forth between s video and comp? you wont beieve what u were missing..Colors are simple vIVID and vibrant, no color bleeding, improved sharpness and more film like smooth and grain free/flicker free picture..same relative comparison wil hold true to some extent between composite and s- video? u have to see to believe!! :p :love: mas:

Could not agree more with you guys. Ever since I got my 27 inch (ok I know its small, stop laughing) Panasonic Gaoo 2 years ago, I have using component inputs. Same with my parents 43 inch Sony and the quality is simply excellent and truly makes those ERO$ dvs semi-crap rather than crap as Ranj mentioned.

My brother in-law also recently got a new tv and he used regular rca jacks for the dvd player hookup and it looked awful! Then I told him to get the component cables and his mouth was left hanging. There is a vast difference between rca and component and like Arsh miyan mentioned a bit of a difference between s-video and component.

• RF connection: "RF" stands for radio frequency, and it's the simplest kind of cable for linking an audio-video source to a television. The cable service that comes into your house is an RF path; it combines sound and picture for easy hookup to your television or VCR. For reasons explained below, RF is the poorest method of getting sound and image from one component to another.

• Composite video: The electrical elements of sound and picture are best separated from each other to prevent mutual interference. In other words, it's best to use one cable for video and another set of cables for stereo sound. And the most basic video connection is called composite, because it combines both the color and light factors in a single terminal — the familiar yellow, RCA-type video plug.

• S-Video: As millions of users can attest, the RCA-type video connection works pretty well. But it isn't ideal. Just as it's better to separate video from audio, improved video performance is gained by isolating the color portion of the video signal (chrominance) from the light factor (luminance). This is achieved by means of a multi-pin S-Video (or "super-video") connector.

• Component video: Here, the subdividing of the video signal is taken one more step, so that the basic color components of red, green and blue are kept isolated from each other. Higher-end DVD players and receivers offer "component" video connections. There is some advantage over S-video, though the difference tends to be less dramatic than the edge S-video holds over simple composite.

Kool Ganti!! very good description indeed!

Thanks Arsh,
I have used the same old technique: copy and paste.
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