[Aladuf]

I bought a new HDTV recently too and it is a Samsung. It was advertised to be 720p/1080i but when I bought an HDMI cable for the PS3 I hooked it up and clicked the option for "display with optimal settings" after that it told me that it is displaying in 1080p. I was (and still am, weeks later) very confused why my supposedly 720p tv is displaying in 1080p.

So I figured maybe that since I was using an HDMI cable with the PS3 then it could have been just "tricking" the tv. After that I turned on the 360 (which is only running on component cables so I figured it wouldn't trick my tv since it's not HDMI) and went to its display settings and swapped it from 1080i to 1080p and sure enough it accepted the settings and displays in 1080p now. I don't know how it's actually doing it, because normally if you have a 720p tv and set it to run in 1080p then you lose all video signal to the tv since it can't be supported.

Basically what I'm saying is, since you have a new Samsung and I have a new Samsung, try this out and maybe you could be running in 1080p too.

As for running GC/PS2 games with component cables, either way on a tv your size (37 inches right? I googled the product number) they are going to look fairly shitty. Components will probably bring out some nasty jaggies on your games, but they're probably already there so go for the components to at least make it more colorful.