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Component or S-video?
Nohbody8
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Just got DirecTV and the guy who installed it has the non-HD channels piped in through the component cables. I already have an S-video cable. I'm wondering if the picture quality of non-HD through S-video is better than non-HD through component cables. It doesn't look as good as I remember but that could be that I haven't had cable in two weeks or that I've never had satellite before. Thoughts or suggestions?
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We're talking with an OP who thought s-Video was better than component for SD content. Also, I have blocked RF Modulators out of my memories. They are too painful.
edit: now that I think about it, I have a RF mod hooked up on my Genesis model 1, for three main reasons: I don't have enough composite ports to hook up it, a SNES, and a Wii, I have a set of good speakers providing sound for it, and I couldn't really see much of a difference between the cheap RCA cable and the RF mod
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
It's a 32" Sony Bravia. I guess it's true what they say about assuming.
Buy a Harmony universal remote. Even the cheapest one will do what you need and do it fucking awesomely.
Here is the why of component
Component is better than s-video because it breaks down the image into three different colours and transmits those separately. S-video and composite (single yellow) is transmitting the entire image all at once.
Fancy names don't make up for only one input...
But seriously, why would you pay for television and not get any HD? You like wanting to claw your own eyes out? Because thats what 480i at 4x3 will make you do, even with the most expensive of name brand TV's...
This is my fault for not clarifying in the OP but what I was planning on doing was leaving the component cables plugged in for the HD stuff and using the S-video cable for non-HD stuff. The reason I was initially asking was 'cause with my Time Warner Cable HD-DVR box from before we moved would put these annoying bars on the sides of the screen for non-HD content piped through the component cables. The DirecTV box we have now, from what I've seen so far, seems to fix this internally so I'm just leaving the component cables. As far as the one input goes, it's inconvenient but there are workarounds available if I had the funds available to implement them.
When 4:3 information is sent to the TV, the TV can put up black bars and retain the original aspect ratio, zoom in on the image and fill the screen while cutting off edges and killing the resolution, or stretch the image and retail all of the information and ruin the proportion.
In short, you're watching TV wrong.
When 4:3 information is sent to the TV, the TV can put up black bars and retain the original aspect ratio, zoom in on the image and fill the screen while cutting off edges and killing the resolution, or stretch the image and retail all of the information and ruin the proportion.
In short, you're watching TV wrong.
Limed for correct way to handle 4:3 source. I really want to strangle persons who stretch a 4:3 source to 16:9.
Zooming in isn't a nice option because - in most cases you are losing picture information and "enhance" / noise / encoding artifacts this way because you are zooming in (depends if you got analog / digital TV format) - The scaler in you decoding box / TV might bring up other issues as well.
One person I know claims that the the resulting picture isn't HD if it isn't stretched to 16:9 - "Do you know what? The resulting picture from you analogue TV cable / service WASN'T IN A HD FORMAT TO BEGIN WITH! So much hate.
it's probably not doing the greatest thing to the overall picture quality, but it's really quite annoying to have to watch a movie that's both letterboxed and pillarboxed within a 4:3 area for no reason.
As long as the image touches two sides of the TV, its fine. What is wrong and bad is when the image has both.
That usually happens when something is shot in 4:3 and broadcast over something in 16:9, but it can happen in a movie (and this is bad).
Not quite.
Composite transfers the entire image in one signal.
S-video transfers the image in two signals - one for luma (basically brightness) and one for color.
Component transfers the image in three signals. There are different ways to do it, but the most common for TVs nowadays is luma, blue information, and red information. (Green information can be calculated based on the other three, so it doesn't need a separate signal.) RGB cables are a type of component cable that does transmit the information as red, blue, and green color info, but they aren't commonly used for TVs (at least in the US).
Man, I remember when I was in college and had my Genesis, SNES and NES daisy-chained together into the RF jack. Now that will get you a shitty picture.