[Bube]

I have both cable and a digital service hooked up to my tv. Cable is very crappy, as you say, but with digital (where the broadcasting quality is better) used to have a much better picture than cable.

I upgraded to HD digital 2 days ago, and the regular channels on it look almost the same - it just has better color. Probably because of the HDMI cable.

And about the GCN component cable - I never had one but I tried a few progressive scan compatible GCN games on my Wii (hooked up with component). The difference was seriously noticable. Much better.

I've never been able to get my hands on a PS2 component cable, but I'm sure it'd be the same.