[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Your post is, in part, nonsense. Component will do 1080i. I think you
are confusing component and composite, which is a common error.