Video Asylum

Posted by John C. - Aussie (i) on January 15, 2001 at 15:19:39:

In Reply to: Re: Do not waste dollars on expensive video cables posted by SJT on January 14, 2001 at 00:22:43:

... 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