I am hoping someone here can help me with this. I am thinking of purchasing a Toshiba D-R4, mainly to distribute DVDs rather than VCRs to cable-less parents. I am also thinking about getting Comcast's DVR (Motorola dual).
I know I need to connect the DVR to my TV via composite or S-video (no HDTV for me yet), and my TV has only *one* S-video in. What I'm wondering, now, is whether the D-R4 does S-video passthrough while off?
That is, if I connect the DVR S-video out to the D-R4 INPUT-1 S-video in, then the D-R4 S-video output to my TV, will I be able to view the cable box output with the D-R4 off or will the D-R4 need to be on for the S-video to passthrough?
Aw...okay. I guess I was hoping Mitsubishi had influenced more than they have. I know their old (current?) S-VHS players had S-video passthrough. I always wondered why no one else picked that up.
Is there any sort of degradation due to s-video switches? If so, any brands to look out for?