Well, I found out what adaptor needed, went to ol' RatShack and grabbed a 6V/800mA adaptor, and it works!
Laserdisc looks alittle better, but on a whim I hooked up my cable box via S-Video (and VGA to my DLP, using "Expand" mode) to see how the SD channels look.
Wow.
This thing kicks both my cable box and my TV's ass at SD processing. Switching back between the DVDO and my TV processing over Component, there's no contest. Of course, shitty looking channels still generally look bad, but on good ones it looks awesome over the DVDO, especially the digital ones. For some reason the Home Shopping Network is one of the best looking.
One thing I see with the TV is a lot of small artifacting on many of the channels with motion, but on the DVDO it's either greatly reduced or gone. Also on the TV everything is very edge enhanced (even the Comcast menus), on the DVDO the harshness of lines is gone. Another thing is overscan, on the TV there has to be nearly an inch cut off the bottom, but all four sides suffer. The DVDO must have nearly none to zero overscan. The DVDO is just generally more "naturally" sharper and colorful (even when matching the TV's picture settings)
For $60 this thing kicks ass. The only problem is if I really look, I can be soft hum bars rolling up the screen, but I can live with it given the noticable improvement. Of course, it's still crappy ol' broadcast SD, but I never figured it could look this good.
