What's not made clear in that product description at Crutchfield is whether its s-video inputs will be upconverted to Component for the Component Monitor Out. If not, the switching is useless because then you'd still have to switch inputs on the TV when you went from the DVD player to the Tivo.

My Onkyo receiver has precisely this problem. It can switch S-Video and Component, but it can't up or down-convert. My current solution is to route s-video and audio for everything through the receiver. I've only got one box with component out, my DVD player, which I have hooked directly to the TV. For normal usage, you don't really see the difference between s-video and component. If I want to watch a movie properly, then I'll switch the TV's input. It's a kludge, but it works pretty well.

When my HD-DirecTiVo eventually shows up (I didn't order soon enough to get one from the first batch), then I'll have two component-out devices, so I'll investigate the component-switching feature of my receiver in more detail. Of course, the HD-DirecTiVo has HDMI output, which multiplexes audio and DVI video on one cable. My TV doesn't have DVI or HDMI inputs, so this might be the impetus for me to upgrade to some kind of shiny new system.

Meanwhile, speaking of cool features in consumer receivers, a lot of interesting things are happening these days at the $1000+ level. The high-end Onkyo receivers can switch HDMI. The high-end Yamaha receivers have digital room correction. Also, many of these higher-end receivers support 6 or 7 discrete amplified channels. Since I only ever plan to have my five speakers, I'm curious whether I'll ever be able to do digital crossovers and use two of those amps per speaker for my front main drivers which support bi-amping.