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S video or component???? please help
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Post 1 made on Monday June 27, 2005 at 21:27
ashleyashna
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Hello,

I just got a new DVD player and I have two options to hook it up. One is the S video, and the other is the component video. I am vvery new to this world and don't know to much. Which cord is going to give me the best picture?

Thanks for the help
Post 2 made on Monday June 27, 2005 at 22:02
dbong1021
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if your TV accepts it, use component.

in order of low to high quality, the generally accepted rankings of video hookups are: composite --> s-video --> component --> hdmi/DVI
Post 3 made on Tuesday June 28, 2005 at 10:39
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Make sure you aren't confusing component with composite. Composite is the single yellow jack typically accompanied by 2 audio jacks, red and white. Component is a 3 jack connection with red, green, blue jacks.
Post 4 made on Tuesday June 28, 2005 at 12:55
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Component. Three cables: Red, Blue, Green,

Not to be confused with Red and White audio with Yellow composite Video cables.
Post 5 made on Tuesday June 28, 2005 at 13:23
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"Follow the yellow brick road".
OP | Post 6 made on Tuesday June 28, 2005 at 23:49
ashleyashna
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Thanks everyone. I appriciate the help!
Post 7 made on Tuesday August 9, 2005 at 02:33
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Echoing everyone else, go with component.
Just out of curiosity, what DVD Player did you get?
Also, what TV are you using it with?

-Jonathan/
Post 8 made on Saturday September 17, 2005 at 22:36
Tom Ciaramitaro
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Not all TVs that take component ins actually do anything serious with them. It has to be more than a standard TV to accept a progressive scan signal. You might spend a bundle on component cables and be no better off than with a mediocre s video cable. Depends on the TV and the DVD both!

I recently hooked up a Toshiba DVD to a LG plasma with component in progressive mode and the pic was quite dark. The S-video input looked better. Even the component in with interlaced scanning looked better than the progressive scan. That's where I finally left it, since I needed to run all the component ins through the A/V receiver.
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Post 9 made on Monday October 10, 2005 at 18:11
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Tom my new sony tv has both component and s video inputs also hdmi. There is a huge differense between s video and component out. If the tv will not recognize progressive signals in the s jack input you might get a black or un-synchronized picture... Many tv's or dvd players can not put out a progressive scan signal into the S jacks output. Progressive output is so much clearer and sharper I still get a charge out of watching dvd's I had watched a few times now in the progressive sharper scan to see what I never saw before.... I can't wait for the 1080 dvd's to come out.....
Post 10 made on Tuesday October 11, 2005 at 11:35
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Actually, zero TVs can get a progressive signal via Svideo. And zero DVD players can output progressive on Svideo.

Tom was referencing analog TVs with component inputs in his first paragraph, not TVs with progressive scan capability.

But Tom's Toshiba player/LG plasma darkness problem was probably an issue of the wrong black level being selected in the machines. Or the machines can't do proper black level. The black level settings for component video or digital connections are different from those of Svideo/composite.
Post 11 made on Tuesday October 11, 2005 at 19:43
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I do agree with Tom also about cables, when I picked up my new Sony with hdmi output I was shown 12 and 20 foot hdmi - hdmi cables near and way over a hundred bucks. I paid $39 for a very substantial 20'er. No video interference or noise etc. I think careful selection of cables is of utmost importance. But some cables are the eqivilent of spinner hubcaps on a new car.......
Post 12 made on Wednesday March 1, 2006 at 01:30
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HDMI offers a non compressed pure digital transfer but the resolution handling is the same except that HDMI supports the transfer of encrypted signals while componant does not, i my self prefer componant over the later, mainly because i dont think that manufacturers have mastered the HDMI capablities just yet, but soon!!


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