RGB to SVideo vs KAT5

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

Following recent mentions of the RGB to S-Video converters @
www.rgbtosvideo.com, I purchased one of these and connected it up as
follows:

Panasonic SKY Digital box -> RGB2SVideo -> AV Amp -> TV
and also I had
Panasonic SKY Digital box -> KAT5 -> TV

Now the KAT5 unit is picking up the composite signal from the sky box, so
in
theory, the RGB2SVideo picture should be better.

Disappointingly, they were as near as damn it identical.

This means one of the following:

1. The RGBToSVideo unit is worse than expected (though ppl on the group
were
happy with it) and is degrading the signal to composite levels
2. The KAT5 unit is so good that it is resolving the composite signal to
SVideo levels!
3. I've got a _special_ edition panny that outputs SVideo from it's scart
sockets
4. (Just thought of this).  The cable from the AV amp to the TV is about
8-10m long (screened RGB cable adapted to feed svideo & composite
signals)
so maybe the loss in the cable is so great that it reduces the SVideo out
of
the amp to Composite quality......

I guess what I really need to do is go
Panasonic SKY Digital box -> AV Amp -> TV  (composite)
and
Panasonic SKY Digital box -> RGB2SVideo -> KAT5 Amp -> TV (SVideo)
to see if the cable is the problem.
I didn't do this initially because
1. I didn't want to daisy chain the two devices in case of some sort of
signal problems (as I had with the panny/kat5 initially)
2. I haven't got an svideo -> SCART lead (lots of Scart -> Svideo
though :(
)

thoughts anyone?


cheers,


Tony


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