dvd component to dvi worth it???

I saw almost no difference on screen between hdmi and component cables on a friends new sony lcd 40" with $200 player. Might as well wait a few months for the cheaper HD dvd players to come out. Mike

In the last issue of Perfect Vision (I think) there was a big spread on DVD players from $79.00 budget to the $10k range and it was noted that very few at any price yeilded a better picture with DVI/HDMI...infact some pictures actually got worse, I know that my budget Samsung DVI is much worse than Comp video (more interferance) bad enough that I pulled it and never looked back.

It is sort of the same question as the whole outboard DAC thing for audio. Which does a better job of scaling, your DVD or your monitor? I have found that on most high end plasmas, the digital connections work better. My personal theory is that given the oddities of plasma pixel counts and the "digital" nature of a plasma display, the manufacturer of the display has an inherent edge in scaling digital to digital. In other cases, it may not hold true--some DVD players have excellent scalers built in, and if you have a true 1080 or 720 display, that may actually work better.

I think its kind of funny, but a lot of the "golden eyes" over at http://www.avsforum.com like s-video into high end machines for standard def material, since it softens it a bit. YMMV.

Keep cable costs in mind.
Long DVI/HDMI runs will cost more than the player???
I doubt it's worth it unless you have a 10 foot screen.