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| Thread ID: 82674 | 2007-09-04 04:45:00 | S Video VS HDMI | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
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| 587809 | 2007-09-04 09:04:00 | I dont have much of a choice its either s video from the decoder or the yellow rca socket which is even lower quality and telstras decoders don't have component so i have to put up with s video through HDMI cable for now realising i know the quality of the s video signal won't be any better just because its going through the HDMI cable. So really then how are you able to compare the difference between an S-Video cable and an HDMI cable if you can only use the S-VHS cable from your decoder to your dvd recoder? You would have to use the same source that enable you to use both and compare it that way. Or did I miss something there? Although Keeping the signal digital may mean less loss, there is still transitions in the way digital data is transfered through digital cables ie, Digital packets that have to be converted to send thus also causing some loss of quality as well-I read this somewhere |
radium (8645) | ||
| 587810 | 2007-09-04 09:23:00 | I grabbed another s video cable plugged it into the back of the dvd recorder and plugged it into the side of the tv and compared the two between s video and HDMI that way. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 587811 | 2007-09-04 10:32:00 | Well I can tell you that there is a great difference between s-video and HDMI. I had a media PC running on a true HD 47" Toshiba LCD TV (which is for sale by the way if anyone is interested :D). Through the s-video output the text on screen was blurry and quite hard to read and I could only set the resolution to a max of 1280x726. With the HDMI cable it was like using a small LCD monitor. The test was clear and crisp and could display up to 1920x1080. The HD videos that I played through it also looked much much better through HDMI. As stated in an earlier post: Low quality in = low quality out. Unless you have an HD source then using HDMI is not going to make a lot of difference over the analogue s-video or component cables. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 587812 | 2007-09-04 10:39:00 | True, Seems strange I work at Retravision and we hook most TV's up using component signal. we tried a DVD player hooked up to 2 TVs at the sametime, using HDMI for 1 TV and component for the other and there was clearly a difference between the two. Note I am comparing component to HDMI, not S-VHS. It probably depends on the quality of the source |
radium (8645) | ||
| 587813 | 2007-09-04 10:43:00 | But with our HD Generator which outputs 720p we can run component and HDMI and DVI off it at the sametime, we really can't tell the difference between the quality on any of the Tvs. Maybe it depends on the source and the TV? I'm not sure. That's because component, HDMI and DVI are all High Definition capable so there won't (or at least shouldn't) be any difference at 720p. If you could compare at 1080p then you may see a difference. Even then all those cables can handle 1080p. The problem will be the HD or blu-ray movie that you play. The max for analogue output is 1080i under AACS copy protection so the HDMI and DVI should be better. |
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