Vizio M3D650SV

[Frag Mortuus]

I've had the TV in the subject line for about 10 months now and I've never hooked anything up to it using anything other than HDMI. Well, I'm in the process of hooking up an SNES that I bought off of a member here and I realized that the TV doesnt have a composite or an S-Video input. I guess Vizio wanted to save money by axing the lower quality inputs. Also, it only has one component input. But, it has 4 HDMI inputs and a coax input. I guess I'm going to route it through my receiver. The good thing is that my receiver has a top notch video scaler in it. So, my SNES will be scaled up to 1080p.

I just thought this was odd and wanted to share.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Most HDTVs I've seen past about 2009 don't have S-Video, and many have phased out component and composite.

[noiseredux]

Most HDTVs I've seen past about 2009 don't have S-Video, and many have phased out component and composite.

really? I had no idea. That kind of sucks. I guess we lucked out, the Toshiba we picked up in 2009 for our living room has 2 HDMI's, 2 components, 2 composites, a VGA, and an RF.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Most HDTVs I've seen past about 2009 don't have S-Video, and many have phased out component and composite.

really? I had no idea. That kind of sucks. I guess we lucked out, the Toshiba we picked up in 2009 for our living room has 2 HDMI's, 2 components, 2 composites, a VGA, and an RF.

Yup. Go have a look in Best Buy right now. Your standard loadout these days is 2 or 4 HDMI ports, and maybe Composite and Audio Out if you're lucky.