After checking this and other forums and seeing the rave reviews of S-video vs component, I got some good quality component cables and to me the picture isn't as good as it was with S-video. I have a Toshiba 57H84 TV and a Panasonic 5 disc DVD player. the LOTR extended widescreen 16:9 DVD looked BETTER with S-video, and I checked the colors to make sure I didn't mess up.
Why would this be? It looks grainier to me. I can't explain it. I double checked the video settings on the TV and they are all pretty much centered as recommended for a projection TV like this and like I said the pic witht eh S-Video, to me, was fabulous. I was all set to see this raved about 10x better quality and I'm not seeing it.
Did you even turn youe DVD player on progressive scan? Thats what makes it better with the components cause you send more signal with p-scan with them. What kind of S-video and component cables were they?
The DVD player is a Panasonic DVD-F86, and I checked the setup thoroughly and there is no progressive scan setting, but this is that kind of a player.
My wife picked up those Monster cables - it's all Compusa had on display.
You know, after looking at a few DVD's over the course of a few hours and playing with the TV video settings, it might be that the extra detail I am seeing, as well as less color bleeding, makes the picture "seem" granier to my eyes. After watching DVD content for a few hours and then going back to te cable box, which is a Scientific Atlanta 4200 utilizing S-video, all that regular digital TV movie channels and non digital channel stuff looked blurrier to me. It might just be my eyes adjusting. I realize that the DVD isn't HDTV, but maybe I am seeing details that I never noticed with the other cables. I only had S-video on there for a day, and prior to that it was normal RCA cables....