Video Asylum

Posted by monk (A) on February 09, 2004 at 23:40:53

In Reply to: Thanks For The Info posted by ChicagoT5 on February 09, 2004 at 09:41:42:

Yes, the solutions you're looking at are not the ideal, but they are the best you can make of the situation.

It's a problem caused by the Video technology leaping over that in the average receivers.

There are receivers that can handle the S-Video/Composite upconversion to the Component kind of video signal and one's that will switch between component sources, but they'd cost you in the region of $600 to $700 (?) used or about $800 or more new (thinking here of the Denon AVR-3803, which can do what you need).

Another option is to get a seprate box to do the Video switching. Not sure what the best one would be, but there are machines that do this (some from pro world),...search hear and the AVS_Forum.com .

If you buy a progressive scan DVD player,...you'll only be able to use the progressive output if you use Component cables (otherwise you're using different video chips in the DVD player and may be missing a lot of why people might like that particular DVD player.

Depending on the projector/TV, ...you can do OK feeding it a lesser signal, ...if you luck out and the TV/projector has excellent video processing on it's own (can be done in either the DVD player/source and/or in the TV,...best is doing it in the DVD usually. Very best is DVI digital output to a projector/TV that can take the video stream as digital signal (i.e., no conversion from Digital to analogue in the DVD player,...followed with Analogue to Digital to Ananlogue again inside the projector. DVI would allow digial output then just the one digital to analogue conversion , happening inside the projector.

Having said all that, running the seperate cables will be a good solution. Picture will actually be better going direct to the projector from the source and not having to get routed through the projector.

M.