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In Reply to: Do not waste dollars on expensive video cables posted by John C. - Aussie on January 13, 2001 at 13:16:46:
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
Follow Ups:
... 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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