PZ wrote:
Its interesting that that the FAQ was highly encouraging the use of
the SVideo output for best results, however I don't know if the FAQ
was written for the earlier model that lacked the Component Outputs or
if these statements include the latest revision.
In general, RGB and Component should be regarded as equivalent
in bandwidth and color capability. S-video is a distant second,
and, of course, composite brings up the rear by a wide margin--
unless, of course, the material you are displaying is natively
composite. ;-)
To easily observe the chroma bandwidth limiting of S-video, just
hook up a DVD player using S-video and view the beginning "scroll
into infinity" titles of any Star Wars movie. The text will be
golden at the lower, and lower spatial frequency, "foreground"
part of the screen, and it will fade to light gray as it scrolls
into infinity, and ever narrower features.
On Aug 13, 11:52 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
Rob wrote:
I am using the RGB to Video, S-VIdeo & Component Video encoder
available here:
http://www.jrok.com/hardware/RGBv4/index.html
I wired a 15-Pin Sub-D port to the RGB input header so I can plug the
GS straight into it using an original monitor cable.
Incidently, I just tried the S-video output and it doesn't even
exhibit the dithering effect.
That's probably because of bandwidth rolloff in the S-video signal
processing. 16MHz is more than most S-video inputs will expect.
Unfortunately, this may also compromise sharpness of small features,
like text. And small features with hue contrast but no luminance
contrast will be nearly invisible, since S-video chroma information
is band-limited to well under 3MHz.