If you have a Sony, you can expect a really good job of upscaling the SD to higher resolution with the S-Video, progressive or interlaced setting on your TV. Some other manufacturers do a really poor job of upscaling. This is a point that many people who buy HD sets forget to evaluate. We are still gonna see a whole lot of SD for some years to come--even VHS, and it is better to find an HD set that does justice to SD.