[geeks] Recommendations or warnings for a new DVD player

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Nov 27 13:12:43 CST 2001


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:19:18AM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:32:45PM -0500, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > RGB <> Composite
> > 
> > Composite means (IIRC) that the three channels are multiplexed on one
> > connection, RGB has seperate connections for each of the three guns...
> 
> I wouldn't consider using composite for a moment.  Frankly, I'm surprised
> that any modern equipment even has it, considering that even my eight-
> year-old low-endian TV has RGB connections.

The TV we have isn't exactly low end, but it certainly doesn't have RGB (or
YUV) connectors.  Bet it has is SVideo.  Still, it is amazing the quality
acheived by splitting the Y and C chanels to different lines.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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