Here's a feature I would like to see, and I sure wonder why it is left out...

Not everyone has Projectors or HDTV-ready displays, so the G98 choices of upscaling to 720P or 1080i is a meager list indeed. I have a Panasonic PA-30 Plasma TV with a vertical resolution of 480, but apart from SAT/Cable TV I mainly watch PAL DVDs. Plasma displays usually don't have especially good scalers. I connect to the plasma by Component, there's no DVI or HDMI.

The G98 has a built-in scaler that is reportedly decent, apart from the minimal number of choices. However, if I put in a PAL DVD in the G98, select deinterlaced output and set video standard to NTSC - the picture gets scaled from 576 to 480. The problem is that resolution isn't the only difference between PAL and NTSC, the signal unwantedely gets transcoded from PAL to NTSC.

It seems like it wouldn't be the largest SW change in history to implement what I want:

* Add two choices of output resolutions, 480p and 576p complements the existing Auto, 720p
and 1080i.
* Store these settings somewhere. I don't know if there's any unused space for a couple of variables, if not it would be a "workaround-quality" solution to have to select 480p every time it is wanted after the unit has been off.
* Add code to utilize these variables so that already existing code is either run or left out, giving possible to get a PAL movie scaled to 480p without any transcoding to NTSC being done.

HD621, G98DH, G68ADV, Bc Acoustiqe ACT A3, 5200C DSP33, NuForce Reference 9 monoblocks, 2x SB3's, Velodyne DD-15 & DD-12 Subwoofers and a Meridian sub.