Yeah, it sorta does. The 925 is a nice player, and this is but one minor point. I always thought composite would be untouched, too, because that's what I thought I'd read, and it made sense. Turns out I was wrong! Actually, I don't know if one can be sure that the composite is untouched unless one looks at a schematic for each player in question. It could be that this is a fairly standard way of doing things.

On the bright side, it may yet be possible to grab the video signal upstream of the comb filter in the player, and feed it to a card (like mine, with a Philips SAA7133 chipset) that has a more modern 9- or 10-bit comb filter. Time (and probably some serious frustration) will tell.