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I'm fairly certain this will work, but I wanted to throw this idea out there to make sure I'm not forgetting something.

In any case, I have a new DVD player that has an HDMI output. Unfortunately, none of the TV's in the house support anything better than S-Video. If I wanted to test the player's upconverting capabilities, I could use an HDMI to DVI cable and hook it up to an LCD monitor, correct? I just want to see how the upconverting looks and at this point, I don't want to invest in a new TV.

Thanks in advance.

in your situation the hdmi to dvi cable would be the best possible picture

unfortunetly that will be very expensive for a good quality cable

$150ish for monster cable at best buy

but i bought one and i know they are with discount like $75

Newegg has em for $25-$30.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6882155026

then use a nice quality dvi cable

S-Video is still analog.
So I'm not sure how much benefit there wil be in converting a digital output from the player to analog S-Video input to the TV
as compared to player S-Video out to TV in S-Video.

All you would be doing is changing the location of the conversion.

What am I missing here?

hes not going into his tv, hes going into his pc monitor which is running dvi

but the dvd player has hdmi, so he will be trying hdmi to dvi and see how it looks

OK, that is what I did miss, he is not going to his TV.

I guess that I still don't see what the comparison is against.

Playing the DVD in DVD-ROM and feeding the monitor with an analog cable?

Comparing that against the DVD player and the HDMI/DVI cable?

curiousty i guess

just to see the difference

Yeah, I just want to see if upconverting makes a difference.