RE: FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

No AFAIK, S-Video is a worldwide standard introduced by JVC in the mid to
late eighties as the next generation of VHS, it failed! It was overpriced
at
the time, but all the high-end AV purists took it up, then when the writing
was on the wall for VHS JVC brought down the costs and the licensing costs.
It was adopted more readily in the US and Japan than Europe, cause we don't
want that...so they tell us.

You will find that the vast majority, if not all, AV amps of a reasonable
quality can handle S-Video and any DVD player I have ever seen from
anywhere
in the world has an S-Video out as a matter of course. All top-end Sony
CRT's handle S-Video, much of many other manufacturers also deal with it
but
as usual Europe is lagging in the technology race.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	12 June 2001 20:10
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)


> Well, gee, S-video is a US standard, here we use SCART. its only
recently
> that sets have started to come with NTSC capability, and S-video.

Is S-Video a "US" standard? I seem to think it's been around for
a long
time. I have a couple of older TV sets that have s-video capability but
don't have a hope of displaying NTSC.

S-Video and SCART are completely different things though - S-Video, like
composite and RGB is a standard for the transmission of video signals.
SCART
is a connector, just like mini-DIN and phono.

I think that the ommission of S-Video as an output format from a $ky box is
almost as stupid as the ommission of an SPDIF output from the spec too (I
believe that Nokia did include an SPDIF output but that's about it) for an
emerging digital format to exclude a commonly available video format (and
the best quality routeable format for most of us) and any form of multi
channel audio is frightening.

Phil




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