[geeks] Recommendations or warnings for a new DVD player

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:03:42AM -0800, Fogg, James wrote:
> Actually, composite video has several flavors. North American standard NTSC
> sucks the most, but PAL (european) is an improvement. SECAM (more european
> in consumer goods, but used in North America for broadcast video) is
> actually pretty damn good. My JVC TV will take PAL composite, and my
> sattelite box will deliver PAL composite. Until I bothered to get the
> S-video cables I used that, and I didn't see much difference between PAL and
> S-video.

See, ever since getting S-Video for my DVD player, I've been wanting to buy an
S-Video switch box so that I can also use S-Video from my playstation.  One of 
these days, I'm also going to add a digital audio out to the playstation 
(from schematics, it looks easy), which should clean up the audio signal (all
Playstations I've used have something of a low frequency, possibly 60hz, hum).
 
> From what I can detect, my first choice would be S-video, which I *believe*
> breaks out R/G/B/sync. S-video is very well supported now on US consumer
> goods. My second choice would be R/G/B/corona, only because its not well
> supported and from A/B comparisons that I have done, it doesn't improve
> anything when displayed on a high end consumer TV (flame extinguisher note,
> this is a personal observation, mileage may vary).

SVideo does not break out the R/G/B/sync.  It breaks out the Y/C.  Y is R+G+B, 
and C is some how derived from Cr (Y-R) and Cb (Y-B).

corona?  Don't think I've come across that yet.  



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Joshua D. Boyd