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RE: RGB to SVideo vs KAT5
Keith,
Based
on my experience, don't bother - the output is to all intents and purposes
the
same.
The
sky menus seemed _slightly_ better, but only with me peering at it from a
foot
away :)
Of
course, I'm sure you'll be building your own RGB to SVideo converter rather
than
purchasing one as I did, so perhaps the outlay for the components will be
worth
it......
As
discussed with you before, I am hooking my stuff up thru my AV amp as if it
was
all S-Video & the TV seems to cope admirably - whether it detects
svide/composite, or whether the amp is doing something magic I don't
know.
Maybe
you'll get away with that too......
Tony
PS:
The only real test of the quality of course will come when I get my RGB
KAT5
unit & can compare that to the RGBtoSVideo thingy I have
:-)
I
have a Panasonic Digibox and have to say that the composite output is very
good.
I
have tried using RGB but on my Mitsubishi the colour is far too intense and
the image leaps about 1.5 inches to the left. I havent got a service manual
to
see if I can adjust it so for now I use Composite.
I
plan to use S-Video at some point in the future so that I can simply route
everything into the KAT5 switcher and AV amp as
S-Video.
Keith
www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv
Hi
I have found that
there is no difference between Sky Digital Composite
and RGB.
I
have got a Loewe Ergo 28" and Panasonic Sky digital box and I was
using
good quality SCART leads.
I spoke to a HiFi dealer friend of mine
who
tested the same theory and
he agreed that there was no difference, he
suggested that is was to do
with the quality of converters on the Sky
box.
Not sure what to make of it
all
Regards
ben
-----Original Message-----
From:
BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 March 2002
11:26
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: [ukha_d] RGB to SVideo vs
KAT5
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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