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Google and you shall find ways to circumvent CP when you want to rip DVD's to PC.

Fundamentally you want to do as lillte processing as possible in the chain. Processing NEVER adds actual resolution, detail, color or whatever to video but rather makes things up as it goes along. Processing is done to make the video appear better or make it suitable for display. For example...

Is title (number of ...) availability an issue as well?

Does anybody have insights into why SACD is not really taking off? The price should not be the issue since CD and SACD prices are quite close. In terms of hardware availability there are quite a few players out there that can deal with SACD. So why are only about a thousand new titles...

demo mode The reason for there being a demo mode (controlled via the remote) is for the benefit of dealers being able to show the feature and thus, the reasoning goes, sell the set. This is also why the brightness is set to a very high level out of the box; bright TV's attract more attention...

I have to agree with mtrycrafts here, I am not aware of dedicated Audio SA-CD players out in the field. One of the reasons most probably is that the SA-CD and DVD-A standards are so close to the DVD (-Video) standard that there is no point in making an audio-only version.

Why not try out both options? It also depends on the amount of HD material that you get over cable. If you watch a lot of HD stuff over cable by all means use the digital interconnect there and component for the DVD player (which never receives HD content but can possibly try to turn it into...

Darien87, I think what you were seeing is 480i versus 480p (?) on a progressive display. This is due to the fact that you were using HDMI. The signal from the DVD player is passed straight to the display "as is". What you ought to compare is using the component connection. Then turn the...

Being the TV-centric freak I am, I have to (;) ) take issue with this. A computer is NOT a good video processing device. Yes, the display resolution will be similar to what TV's offer but before the video gets there... A lot of things need to happen before you get decent video perfomance and...

Not 100% sure about this but I don't think that uncompressed video itself will address the issue of resolution. It would only make sense it the whole chain from video production to distribution and display were uncompressed. If at some point in the chain there is compression or filtering that...

I can appreciate your problem dazednconfused. I have for myself come to the conclusion that it is best to leave each device to do the thing it does best; let the TV do the video, the reciever do the audio and the DVD player decode the disc. Because of this I am sorry to have to disagree with...

I'll let the others respond to the coax-optical question. I can't notice the difference myself to be honest. What I will try though is switching between analog and digital for movies and CD when I get the chance. Better bass management would certainly be nice to have (my neighbours may disagree...

In response to Vigor's initial question, there will (/ought to) be no difference if the receiver is also able to take in component video and spit out component as well. If, on the other hand you can only connect using S-video to and from the receiver, there will be loss of quality. Apologies for...

You will be fine with movies too using the analog connections. The only difference will be that the DVD players decodes the DD or DTS audio and not the pre-amp.

It could also be that the TV does not accept progressive input. This may be the case if the TV is relatively old. Try putting the DVD player in interlace mode and see it that works. This will also tell you if the cables are plugged in correctly.

I would suggest using the analog connection; it gets you the full surround effect when playing SA-CD or DVD-Audio (no digital output available for surround sound indeed on account of copy-protection). True, you will be using the D/A converter of the player which may or may not be inferior to...

Why not use the analog connections from the Sony to the Hitachi (eg. component video)? You will be very hard pressed to notice the difference in video quality anyway.

Sorry to disappoint but upconverting to progressive will not make the player multi-format. In general, many PAL DVD players also support NTSC play-back but very few (if any) NTSC players support PAL playback. Going to progressive just doubles the number of lines of any give format; PAL stays PAL...

Just for clarification; DVI does not have any copy-protection "features" but was intended initially just to provide a digital interface between the PC and the monitor. As such it was never meant to support "consumer" applications. HDMI is a superset of DVI and supports over and above DVI...

Perhaps Hi Ho. But even in that case, or even more so, I think that the video processing in the TV is better suited to that display than doing it elsewhere. Depending on the architecture of the TV set, you may have several steps along the way in scaling, format conversion, video enhancements...