[spid777]

I have a 17 month daughter. She is moving into my old bedroom. I wall mounted an new Samsung LCD in that room. Running behind the walls I have one HDMI and one fairly descent component cable. We recently switched from Direct TV to our local cable provider. The cable box they gave us only has composite output, I'd rather not pay with the extra monthly fee for a second HiDef box from them...its like ten bucks a month, which adds up. So my only cables running behind the wall are component and a single HDMI. I would also like to set up a dvd player in there for her eventually. So i need to set up the crappy composite some how. I was thinking either upscaling receiver (upscaling is not a necessity though) or some type of dvd player with composite in and HDMI out...if they even make that.

[Jacob C]

why not just use one wire on your component run?

[Allan Jayne]

Nothing is going to recoup all the losses that digital cable channels sustained by being forced into a composite cable. But any analog channels might well come out better via composite compared with via component video or even HDMI from a different more sophisticated cable box.

It depends on what kind of comb filter your TV used for composite inputs versus what kind of comb fiter any "improved" cable box may have to make analog channels come out as other than composite.

Upscaling receivers also need comb filters to make composite source cross feed to the S-video output or the HDMI output, etc. There is no guarantee this comb filter will be better than that in the TV either.

You will want to plug the DVD player into the TV using component or HDMI even if the cable box is connected to a different TV input using composite.

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[JeremyErwin]

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Originally Posted by spid777

I have a 17 month daughter.

Wait a couple of years, someone's bound to come up with a solution.

[Jeff Gatie]

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Re: crappy composite

Uh yes, composite is crappy. Any other questions?

[JeremyErwin]

There's an expression among programmers, garbage in, garbage out. Unless the comb filter on your present television is really quite bad (in which case s-video might be an improvement) an upsampling receiver is not going to dramatically improve the picture. Better cabling might, but this is not the best solution, by far. You might also try recalibrating.

(upsampling dvd players have access to the raw mpeg).

What's the purpose of this installation, anyway?