Re: Saturn's comment that it's probably my non-progressive DVD that fuzzes up the subtitles, I didn't think of that but it makes sense. Here's some imperfections I see that you don't:

(Impressive setup by the way!) There's the subtitles, there's the fact that the audio and video sometimes get disconnected, there's the occasional digital decoding error. And there's also the fact that on 2 DVDs, roughly halfway through the movie I noticed a really major error in the playback, with digital errors, a gap in the sound and everything. I bet this DVD is puking when it shifts layers in the DVD! Sad.

So yeah, the DVD changer was bought with the intention that it would be a CD/MP3 changer, and the DVD part was an afterthought 2 years later!

Yep, first on my list of upgrades is a better DVD player. Which reminds me, I read either here or at avsforum that an upconverting DVD actually improves the image even on a 480p projector, so that's a feature I'll look for in addition to progressive scan.

Thanks -- Martin