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Originally Posted by benman94
S-Video separates the luma and the chroma, but you're still limited to ~330 lines luma resolution, and the chroma resolution is still constrained with S-Video. Even S-Video doesn't live up to the full potential of the DVD standard.
Perhaps ignorance on the part of consumers played a role? I know my parents had a 40 inch Trinitron with component in, but never the component inputs. My father used the composite video cable that came with the first DVD player he bought around 2001 or 2002.
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According to the interweb, you could buy players with component video out as early as 1997, and DVD always supported 16x9 resolution, so I would say it's reasonable to conclude they designed it with the future in mind. VHS had a good 20 year run, I bet they thought DVD would too.
My parents got a Sony 43" rear projection TV and a DVD player in 1999, it was a huge improvement over the 20" trinitron it replaced.. I don't think anyone in our house cared about composite versus component, even through comoosite the equipment was so clearly superior for watching movies to what it replaced.