So, now that I have a nice new TV, I decided to set up my DVD player in its progressive scan mode. I hooked it up via composite cables (which I happened to have because they are identical to normal RCA cables except there are more) and was getting weird output. I figured that I had to go into some menu and change it to progressive mode. After spending like 20 minutes going through every menu without success, I pulled out the DVD player again to see if I'd wired the cables up wrong. It turns out that on the back of the DVD player is a small 3 way switch. This switch controls which output is active (composite or component) and whether or not it is in progressive scan mode and requires a power cycle to take effect. Of all the places to put such a switch, this seems like a very poor one. It is especially irritating since it means that I can't easily switch between watching on my old SDTV and my new HDTV. Ah well, I'll just have to pick one to use for video games and one for other stuff.

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