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I need some advice on composite video cables. I just bought my first dvd player that has s-video and component video outputs. Problem is my 5 year old Sony Trinitron doesn't have s-video input. So, I'm stuck with composite cable and the picture quality is good but not great. Wish I had known about s-video at the time I bought my tv. Anyway, I bought a monster-video 2 cable and was wondering if there are composite cables that would do better than this particular one. I understand that a good 75 ohm cable will bring out the best picture also, so any suggestions/advice on these cables would really be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
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Rich,
I'm in the same boat as you...my DVD player has an s-video out, but my old Magnavox only has composite in. I'm using the cheap one that is supplied with the player and would like to experiment with a better built/shielded cable. I've been looking at the one from bettercables.com and it doesn't look too bad for $40, but I am not familiar with your cable and your's might already be superior to this cable. I hope others can make some suggestions, that or I'll have to start looking for a new television;-)
-Steve
See earlier posts on this board for more discussion.Also, do not be too upset at no S-video connection. The improvement over composite is marginal. The quality of the software has a far greater influence on picture quality IMO.
John
John,
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with your statement that s-video is only marginally better than composite (I'd probably agree with you if you said component is only marginally better than s-video...I did notice less of a difference on our big screen). I've compared the two connections (s-video and composite) on three different televisions (Sony Trinitron-higher end 32" from '99, Sony 53" digital ready television which was their best 15 mo. ago, and a lowly 27" JVC) and each time saw a vast improvement (brighter colors, sharper images, text *much* easier to read- especially the credits, much less dot crawl) that my entire family and my girlfriend's family noticed. I even used three different DVD players (cheap Apex 500A, Pioneer DV-434, and a Panasonic CV-50). It is such a noticeable difference that I wish my 25" Magnavox had s-video, but it's about 10 years old so I'm lucky it even has composite in and audio in. Oh well. But I do agree that the quality of software is often unpredictable, so if one gets a crappy picture, it might not be the player, television or cables, but the DVD itself.
-Steve
... which inspires me to re-evaluate my opinions.The basic problem faced here for a long time has been to fine tune the settings in the Barco VSE40 switcher (also includes a line quadrupler + heaps of video parameter settings) for the 808S projector. It is a tweakers dream or a viewers nightmare, depending on your philosophy, with each of the 6 inputs requiring its own set of parameters.
Well FINALLY we are getting superb video from NTSC laserdiscs via expensive S-cable from the Theta Data III player. So, my depreciating comments on cabling could be mistaken because the video settings were not optimised enough to detect cabling differences. Up to now the component output from the Toshiba DVD player killed any LD competition, but not now.
I have found tweaking the Barco for top video far more difficult than tweaking the sound system, although optimising that was not simple.
John
Generally speaking, S-video is a more substantial improvement in color resolution over composite video than Component video is over s-video.
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