Svideo vs. Component

[Titan]

Which would improve my PS2 picture and quality, Svideo or Component? I\'ve been researching and getting mixed reviews and wondering if anyone triend them.

it actaully depends on the TV...........the bigger the tv the more you can tell the difernce........I have a 15" Toshiba with component...... and it looks GOOD!  It looks even better on a 21"!

S-video doesnt split the video channels............component does into 3 channels.

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[Paul2]

component is better.  If your tv have a component input.  Buy a component cable.  Component seperate black and white, blue, and red color while s-video only seperate b/w and color.  SO Component gives out cleaner image and more color definition.

RGB is the best over both S and Component

RGB only comes in scart though. Most hi end TV\'s/monitors/plasma screens should have an input.

[Kurt Angle]

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
RGB is the best over both S and Component

RGB only comes in scart though. Most hi end TV\'s/monitors/plasma screens should have an input.

I don\'t think TV\'s in the US have scart sockets racer. It is just PAL TV\'s that have this.

Exactly, RGB for EU and component for US.
RGB is a little bit better than componenet.

[Paul2]

RGB is ideal for game.  I think the reason why most U. S. TV doesn\'t have RGB input but rather a YUV probably the engineer make it only for watching movies, videos...movies are recorded in YUV(component video) format to save bandwidth because RGB requires too much memory.  Video games run at RGB quality and engineer probably didn\'t think video games is a major thing for tv so i guess RCA company just go the old fashion way.

If you\'re curious.  RGB stand for RED, GREEN, and, BLUE.  It\'s the best like someone said compare to YUV but the human eye couldn\'t tell much of a different between the two when watching video or even playing video games something about human eyes have more rod shapes pupil than oval shapes...i don\'t know...whatever.

RGB is also split on your VGA monitors.  Hi end TVs & projectors have RGB-H/V inputs as well.  You can\'t tell a difference between component and RGB.

But by all means S-vdieo blows both away.  It\'s so beautiful!!  For a step up try composite connections which is the most expensive.  And if you\'re super rich try out RF connection which puts the video and audio on same signal.

And always remember the more the wire costs the better the picture will be.

As long as your not playing with RF switches and A/V cables you will get a really sharp clean picture. Vga, s-video and the component cables are all top notch stuff. They arent expensive either so you could even get all of the connections and try them all by yourself. For some reason i always end up with all sorts of cables for my consoles and once in awhile i hook them up differently just for the heck of it.

Astro

Low quality -> high quality

RF -> A/V -> S-video -> Component -> RGB

dont think you get in usa, but scart , that s what ive found the best

[Paul2]

Originally posted by THX
RGB is also split on your VGA monitors.  Hi end TVs & projectors have RGB-H/V inputs as well.  You can\'t tell a difference between component and RGB.

But by all means S-vdieo blows both away.  It\'s so beautiful!!  For a step up try composite connections which is the most expensive.  And if you\'re super rich try out RF connection which puts the video and audio on same signal.

And always remember the more the wire costs the better the picture will be.

Whatever THX said....hehehehehhahahaheheheheh!!!

THX,

You are so completely wrong. Svideo is no where NEAR the quality of RGB, and component it still not as good as RGB either.

RGB is the best of the best. Games are designed to be played useing RGB format.

Also, some USA televisions DO have RGB inputs.

[videoholic]

Racer, I think THX was being sarcastic.  If you couldn\'t figure it out, perhaps you didn\'t see "And always remember the more the wire costs the better the picture will be."  





And yes, some tvs have RGB inputs.  


To say RGB is better than component is saying that Pepsi is better than Cola.  Pepsi IS cola...  SO how can it be better?

RGB splits the signal up into seperate colors with the sync on green usually.  RGBHV has a seperate Sync channel.  YUV is a luminance-chrominance transformation where each wire carries different aspects of the signal and is combined at the end.  But these are all component.

And unless you have a kick ass TV you aren\'t going to tell the difference between S-Video and RGB.

Vid, I was being sarcastic as well... \'you are so completely wrong\'...

Well, I use a 50 inch SONY monitor (we use it as a TV). Playing via composite, svideo and RGB, there is a big difference between the three.

RGB really \'cleans\' the picture up compared to svideo, and the colours are alot more defined and contrasted. The only downside to RGN is it makes aliasing worse in some games (and better in others) because its so clean and clear.