Color is the only difference. If you can find it you may want to get the older 44BK / SL. It's pretty much the same player with all the same features but also has a region-free hack available if that's anything that interests you.
Ok, that clears it up. What was really tough for me was figuring out a way to get 1080i test patterns to my set. I finally copied some test patterns on to a DVD-R and used my Bravo D1 to scale them to 1080i (it'll scale over component for non-copyrighted discs). Either way, once the geometry is...
I don't see how the input affects what he's calling "broken up by horizontal lines that interfered especially with straight or curved lines in the picture". That sounds like either geometry or a problem with the source.
An easy fix for your "lock in full" mode is a DVD player that pillar-boxes 4:3 material allowing it to be displayed properly on "lock in full" 16:9 displays. I got a JVC 40BK player for $45 from ecost for this purpose. It also has the propper zoom settings for non-anamorphic 16:9 movies which...