[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:45:45 +1300, you wrote:

>some do, some are poor quality. Remember too composite and s-video are
>the two poorest quality of reproduction, but you may be happy with
>them. The hierarchy is pretty well:
>
>composite
>s-video
>component/vga (not too sure what order to put them in)
>hdmi/dvi (equivalent)

As a long time user of S-Video and S-VHS, I can say that there is not
much difference noticeable between S-Video and component video.  The
theoretical difference is really just a little colour crosstalk, and
with good source material I have not found it to be a problem.  VGA
has generally historically been better than component, but only
because it had lots more pixels (eg 1024x768 vs 720x576).  I think
they are pretty equivalent technically.  Composite is to be avoided at
all costs - it really is bad by comparison.

I would think that problems converting VGA to component would likely
be because of the converter trying to resize the picture.  If you were
putting out 720x576 VGA and converting that to 720x576 component with
the resizing switched off, it should give excellent results.  Resizing
of video is one of the worse things to do to it, and getting it right
is difficult.