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This seems to be a common problem. I've seen quite a few HD sets that look good when being fed a HD signal (barring reception problems), but feed them an SD analog signal (VHS, Laserdisc, game system) and they look awful. I've yet to see one that scale SD up to HD (which has to be done on any display device with a fixed resolution such as plasma, LCD or DLP) without introducing distortion and artifacts. Dot crawl seems to be much worse on the LCD sets that I have seen than on any CRT set.
I've yet to see a HD CRT set, but I doubt they would have the same problems as they could display the SD sources as is without scaling them up to HD.
RCAchild: Have you tried hooking the composite output from your LD player to your DLP set instead of the S-video? It may be better. LD video is recorded in composite on the disc. The S-video output on the player is provided by a comb filter built into the player. If the comb filter in the Samsung is better than the comb filter in the LD player (or at least better matched to it's scaler) it may be better.
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