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In Reply to: Component to S-video while retaining progressive? posted by Len on January 09, 2004 at 08:25:22:

Unfortunately you can't use the DVD players progressive scan abilities with your S-Video only TV. Besides everything else, your TV wouldn't know what to do with a progressive signal.
But your DVD player probably has an S-Video out and can output a interlaced video signal that your TV will like.
If you want to use the DVD players progressive scan ability, you will (sob!) have to buy a compatible TV.
Having said that, S-Video DVD on a regular TV can be very good. Progressive scan really pays off more with larger screens ..., so it's not the end of the world.

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Re: Component to S-video while retaining progressive? - Len 12:30:46 01/09/04 (3)
Thanks for the reply.
My TV is about 8 years old now. It's a Toshisba 65" 16:9 TV that has a max vertical res of 1080. I guess I'll have to buy that front projector I've always wanted ;-) I was hoping there was a convertor box or some device that could read the progressive signal and transfer it to S-video.
- Re: Component to S-video while retaining progressive? - monk 14:38:01 01/09/04 (2)
  Hello Len,
  That sounds like a nice TV. Before getting a projector I got a lot of enjoyment out of a set that was probably a smaller version of what you have (mine was the 40" 16:9 TW40H80 (?)).
  The 1080 lines it can do will be interlaced video,...I'm surprised your set doesn't have the component video input. My 40" Toshiba, it seems to me,...was of similar vintage and it had compenent inputs. It would still only do interlaced video, so there wasn't a big advantage to use the component input over S-Video, but the inputs were there.
  If your TV gets the 480i S-Video signal,...will it upconvert and display this at 1080i? This wouldn't be as good as 720P, but could easily be better than 480P (?)
  - Re: Component to S-video while retaining progressive? - Len 14:57:46 01/09/04 (1)
    Ya, up until last year, I didn't know my set was lacking component inputs too; I just assumed it had them when I bought my dvd player. The TV does no upconverting but claims to do 1080i max res (I believe it's 8" CRTs) Still, doesn't help me out now, does it :-P Oh well.
    - Re: Component to S-video while retaining progressive? - monk 12:53:11 01/10/04 (0)
      I'm not up on this, but doesn't it seem odd that Toshiba would make the TV capable of 1080i and then not provide a means to input such a signal?
      I was thinking about the new DVDO HD video processor that Joe Murphy mentions just above,...it could take the interlaced 480 (or 480P) and do all kind of video wonders with it,...but it seems there's no way to get the signal into the TV?
      I wonder what the limits of S-Video connection? It can't handle progressive, but maybe it can do better than 480i? If this is the case then the video processor might help (if it can output an interlaced signal higher than 480i).
      But the solution is as expensive as the cure, at around $1,500 for the latest DVDO Hi-Definition model (can buy a nice projector for that).
      Also,...please don't stop searching for a solution based just on what I know,...I don't think you have a good option, but there might be some solution - just seems there must be some way to get the higher level signal into the TV.
      I don't have much of a magazine collection, but I have a few older SGHT etc. and there might be a review detailing the thinking behind your TV's design. Do you know the model number?

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