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Whats the different between that two? I saw it available at the rear panel of a progressive scan player.MK
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"Component" refers to a connection type (as contrasted to Composite and S-Video). Component has 3 distinct signals, where S-Video has 2 and composite 1. The information in S-Video and composite are there, but not broken out until they get to your TV. It's best normally to break the three apart at the source (DVD).Progressive is how the TV displays data (lines). Contrast it to interlaced. Interlaced paints every other line alternating 60 times a second. 30 "frames" will have odd lines, 30 "frames" will have even lines. If your monitor displays 480 lines total, only 240 will be painted in each pass. Progressive paints every line every pass so you will have 480 lines 60 times a second. Result, a more film-like image.
Progressive scan requires deinterlacing at the DVD player OR at the monitor. Normally it's best to let the DVD player (must be a progressive scan DVD player) deinterlace to minimize conversion between digital and analog. A component connection is the only supported progressive connection of the three mentioned above. You will need to have a monitor that is progressive scan compatible (DTV) as well. If you send an interlaced signal from the source (DVD), the monitor can then "double" the lines internally providing a deinterlaced, or progressive picture. Not all line doublers are equal in quality.
See http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_4/dvd-benchmark-part-5-progressive-10-2000.html for visual aids.
Hope that helps!
-- Greg
you may have a monitor that takes the five wire signal "RGB", which is composed of VD, HD, R, B, G; in which case you get to buy a total of five expensive video wires, and if you're really lucky, they will have an RCA connector on one end and a BNC connector on the other (and don't forget to look for the little arrows on the jacket), which is how you know you've reached the obsessive-compulsive top of the video snob heap...which is much more "neato" than the piss-ant 3- wire "component" input (Y, PsubB, and PsubR);
but not nearly as cool as the ONE WIRE (D-sub 15p) VGA hook-up (R,G,B, GND, NC, SDA, HD/SYNC, VD, SCL).
The real question for a purist is: "Which is the 'best'?"
and the answer: nobody knows
that's why I have my video monitor hooked up to ALL of the video input options: F-type RF coax, composite on BNC, S video, VD, HD, Pr/Cr/R, Pb/Cb/B, Y/G, and VGA. while you're at it, don't forget to use the low speed serial data connetion.
If you have about 80 wires hanging off the back of the video monitor you're just about there.
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The short answer:one outputs 480i (regular television or "Standard Definition" or SDTV) and the other outputs 480p (better than regular television, sometimes known by the marketing term: "Enhanced Definition" or EDTV).
if your TV is "digital ready" (a marketing term used to convince idiots that their old loudspeakers were for some reason "incompetent" for playing CDs), which in the case of video, means it will display at least 480 horizontal lines via a component input (usually 3-RCA jacks, but sometimes 5 and they could be BNC and even VGA), then use the "progressive" output on your DVD, unless you think the "component" output looks better, which might be the case if your monitor has a better de-interlacer than your DVD player. Oh, and the guy who sold you the TV or the DVD player knows less than you, so be prepaired to have him try and sell you a new HDTV monitor, which means you're going to need alot more wires. confused? welcome to high-end video, where nobody knows the answer, and everybody has the solution.
The long answer:I've yet to find anyone who really knows AND can explain what the deal is with video today. The nice thing about "high definition" audio is that nobody can tell just by listening, so the consumer just has to buy the most expensive gear they can afford and "trust your ears" or even better, trust eveyone's ears but yours. But with "high definition" video, it's no "piece of pie".
You may think that judging the best video picture should be as "easy as cake", since you only have to look at the screen and listen to your brain. But no, it's not that easy, because the marketing folk are wise to this shortcut, and have come up with a scheme whereby you need so many wires to connect your television to the picture source that nobody, and I really mean NOBODY, knows how to get these things to work right. Oh, and for goodness sakes, make sure you look at all the little arrows printed on the cable jackets, so that they are all aligned with the Universal Magnetic Field (UMF or U-motha-f#%@!).You're on your own pal, let us know if you figure it out. I do have one bit of advice that you may find helpful:
The total mass of wires behind the gear should be equal to the mass of the television monitor. This is what we mean when we say "balanced system".
Im quite certain I had a balanced system. since the monitor was encroaching into living space, I had one of those bump outs installed into the family double wide to compensate for the wire space.
I think the cat bit into a wire though. there is a smell from behind the monitor now and the cat has not shown its face in weeks. I've also noticed that subtle flicker when greens converge to reds from the over saturated colour bands that the progressive scan sends past the dac's when you rent dvd's that are not THX certifiable.
I guess i need some silver wires.Bmar
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