[DrKnow65]

brijar,

The setting killing the TV's is the back lighting. You want it set to no more than 2/3 the maximum. Brightness is actually how dark the black is during dark scenes (setting goes with how dark the room is while viewing), hue is almost never moved from default, sharpness you run at the maximum untill you start to see grains (especially around curved objects), "picture" is always better when you use "custom" and set yor own preferences.

For some reason it seems that the 1080i TV's have the setting names confused, just my opinion. Best advise is just to bump down the backlighting and play with everything else except the hue. Also I've seen a few very expensive 1080i TV's that were still at the default 780p ;)

If you can tell me the model I can see if the guys have a generic ~best~ setting for them.

Gee, kind of a hard one, no idea. But I would guess that even if it would plug into a component slot and turn on you'd most likley not get the correct software to make it run?

Cables...
Digital data has a thing called the "cliff effect" basically the processor can deal with a very low signal strength until it can no longer follow the data stream, then it drops off (i.e. cliff). So it either has the info or not. There is bandwidth issues where data packets have to be sent over and over to get complete strings, but with streaming video there is no time to wait for data so you get pauses or jumps in the picture... have yet to see a bad cable make that happen.