[mythtv-users] *huge* difference in picture quality..

[Henk Poley]

Op woensdag 26 mei 2004 17:48, schreef Kyle Rose:
> Henk Poley <hpoley at dds.nl> writes:
> > Are you sure? Maybe you should try S-Video and don't believe your eyes?
> > Composite is rather crappy since it jams all the video info over one
> > wire. S-Video has split channels for each of the colors (RGB?) and hue,
> > if I'm not mistaken. Composite looks 'fuzzy'.
>
> I think by "coax" he means RF modulation to channel 3/4 (or whatever
> they use there), which indeed would look a lot worse than
> composite/S-video.

That's what I thought too, btw.

> FWIW, composite and S-video are almost identical in quality: the real
> step-up is to component video, which can output progressive scan,
> giving you 480 viewable scan lines in NTSC at one field per frame
> (non-interlaced) instead of 240 per field at two per frame
> (interlaced).

Guess the RCA out of the Asus Pundit is crappy then? It's night and day, even 
at 640x480 "NTSC" resolution.

> Unfortunately, this is pointless for analog TV since it 
> is broadcast at 480i, which is why I suspect TV capture cards don't 
> bother with it.  It makes a *huge* difference for DVD's, though.

*grin*, guess what my TV-card has as input? But then I am in PAL land, as is 
the UK. Not that I use it, I record from (coax) cable ;-)

	Henk Poley <><