Ah, cool, I get gray bars. No burn-in on my TV.

There is much debate about whether it's better to let the HD-TiVo do the up-conversion and stretching or whether it's better to output a "native" signal and make your TV set do the upconversion and whatnot.

Interesting. It really depends on which TV you have and on just how good the upconversion is on the Tivo unit.

I don't think I'd have a choice in my case... Since my TV's high def inputs will only take 1080i or 540p if I recall correctly. So if I set the Tivo to "Native" then 720p stations and standard-def signals won't show. So if I don't like the Tivo's upconversion, I'll have to switch inputs on the TV set to watch it from the S-video connector. We'll see how it all comes down when the unit is actually in my hands.

My concern, from reading these threads, is that I don't want to have to tweak my TiVo and my TV every time I change the channel. I want to set it up once and just sit down and watch TV. This may not be easily possible.

Agreed completely. This is why I want a high-def Tivo, so that what I currently do with two boxes will be done with a single box and a single integrated program guide.

I've already lived with what it's like to watch standard-def television upconverted to 1080i by a mediocre high-def decoder box. It's not bad, but the TV does a much better job at showing 480i material natively on the s-video inputs than that old high-def box did at upconverting stuff. I'm hoping that the HD Tivo improves on the technology somewhat. We shall see.

Oh, and reading through that thread... Boy, I take it for granted how good I really have it here. Poor guy got ripped a new one for FAQing somebody.