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BTW: Beside the line doubling making even VHS tapes look decent on a 53" screen, the real benefit for ME is being able to go into 16:9 mode for anaphoric DVD's. (You will need component outputs on your DVD player, but that is a pretty standard feature now.)


Anamorphic DVD's do look great on a 16x9 TV but don't require component outputs. The anamorphic image will be passed by any of the DVD player outputs. Component outputs allow you to bypass the color decoder in the TV and, essentially, give you a straight signal path from the DVD to the TV's display circuitry. The improvement from component outputs is inversely related to the quality of the color decoder in the TV.

With regards to requiring component outputs, you may be confusing anamorphic with progressive scan. It's true that progressive scan only works on component or VGA outputs.

-Dylan