Re: IIgs RGB to YPbPr Component experiment

[Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>]

"jsnospam@cimmeri.com" <js@cimmeri.com> writes:
> I think here in the USA, the only consumer devices that might have
> benefitted from RGB video would have been the laserdisc, and possibly
> SVHS..

Laserdisc would not benefit from an RGB interconnect, or even S-video, becuase
it stores a composite video signal.  In many cases, the color separator in
a high-end television is better than that built into a laserdisc player, so
you're actually better off using a composite cable.

SVHS would be able to reproduce color better with an RGB output than composite,
but it wouldn't particularly be better than the S-video output because the
color-under system of consumer VCRs puts encoded chroma on the tape.  It's
not mixed with the luma, though, so using S-video interconnect rather than
composite avoids the need to split them again in the monitor, thus providing
better luma resolution and reducing color decoding artifacts.

Eric