Thanks to Ilya and wbuffetta for your quick feedback!
Okay -- it would be very easy to use multiple sets of cables switched through my AV receiver (just requires me to change the source input on the TV as needed).
The implication in wbuffetta's post is that "Native" mode might try to stretch an SDTV signal to 16:9 aspect ratio for component/DVI outputs.
I'm curious as to whether using the composite or S-Video jack gives an unconverted 4:3 SDTV signal (which would therefore display full-screen on my TV). What happens for those of you connecting secondary STBs to non-HD TVs? Is there stretching/clipping?
There are two issues here: price (of course -- I got a really good deal on my Panasonic!), but perhaps more importantly size. To keep in the approximately 30" width of my current furniture I'd need to get a 26" 16:9 (the 30" 16:9 sets are a bit wide!). The only 26" 16:9 sets I've seen are a Philips and a Samsung at $600-700 (vs. $800 for an 30" widescreen). The picture on the latter was a bit soft, and reviews of the former have been pretty mixed. I believe a letter-boxed 16:9 image on my 27" diagonal 4:3 TV will be almost the same size as the full-screen image on a 26" widescreen.
CDH.
Ilya said:
Okay -- it would be very easy to use multiple sets of cables switched through my AV receiver (just requires me to change the source input on the TV as needed).
The implication in wbuffetta's post is that "Native" mode might try to stretch an SDTV signal to 16:9 aspect ratio for component/DVI outputs.
I'm curious as to whether using the composite or S-Video jack gives an unconverted 4:3 SDTV signal (which would therefore display full-screen on my TV). What happens for those of you connecting secondary STBs to non-HD TVs? Is there stretching/clipping?
There are two issues here: price (of course -- I got a really good deal on my Panasonic!), but perhaps more importantly size. To keep in the approximately 30" width of my current furniture I'd need to get a 26" 16:9 (the 30" 16:9 sets are a bit wide!). The only 26" 16:9 sets I've seen are a Philips and a Samsung at $600-700 (vs. $800 for an 30" widescreen). The picture on the latter was a bit soft, and reviews of the former have been pretty mixed. I believe a letter-boxed 16:9 image on my 27" diagonal 4:3 TV will be almost the same size as the full-screen image on a 26" widescreen.
CDH.
