Quote Originally Posted by nightflier
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you use your x-box for watching DVD's, you will not get a progressive scan signal out of it. Since you have a dvd player, that's probably not what you will be doing. Hence the s-video hookup should be fine for games. I don't have an x-box, but that is what it looked like when I hooked up my friend's x-box, but maybe we were only playing older games.

That said, the surround sound & bass is the real reason to connect through your receiver.
XBOX is 1080i capable. Don't know if they've made any games for that yet, but I definitely have 480p games on gamecube.