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component video question?

Hello, I just upgraded my tv and am now looking to go to a component video connection. The problem is that my current home theater reciever is not equipped with component video. I am going to have to go directly into my tv from my dvd player. Everything else is going to be routed to the reciever via s-video connections. My question is this. Should I just forget about the component video connection and make it all s-video. I've heard that your picture settings can change drastically from an s-video connection to a component video connection. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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reubent
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Even though my HT reciever does have component switching, I don't use it. Quality component video cables are relitively expensive. Why would anyone want to spend twice as much money (2 cables required to use receiver switching) and potentially get degraded performance? The inconvenience of having to select the video input souce on my TV is a reasonable tradeoff vs cost, degradation of signal quality.

Connect the DVD player directly to the TV via component cable and be happy! If you have a learning remote and MUST have the convenience of NOT selecting the TV input, configure a macro to do it for you.

Enjoy,

TIC
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