RE: Composite Video

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

The main problem you'll see with composite is the flaring of reds ... PAL
doesn't handle it well and the circuitry to make a good job of decoding
composite is complex (read expensive) to implement.

S-Vid suffers with this too but to a far lesser extent.

I used to borrow a nice "little" Panasonic S-VHS VCR from work -
I could do
stuff like that since I was the studio manager there ;-) - and that had
decent composite decoding but then again IIRC it cost us the best part of
?3k!

Ultimately the big problem we (as consumers) face is that the consumer
stuff
is built down to a price ... you *CAN* make a decent job with PAL (whether
composite or s-vid) but it's a standard that was developed to be cheap to
implement (and also as an upgrade of a standard that itself was based on an
upgrade of a standard) at a consumer level. As "discerning" users
we can
either try to make the best of the good end of the consumer stuff or kill
ourselves trying to afford the professional gear!

Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Griffiths [mailto:mike@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 July 2003 09:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Composite Video
>
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> We do all the time in the Studio by necessity
> And it is NAFF
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> Mainly because you are watching PAL with all of its problems
> Check it out for yourself Rob
> Just switch your Sky or Freeview to Composite and see the difference
> You don't need a Plasma to see the problems
> The Plasma will just enhance them for you
> Mike
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>   _____
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> From: Rob Mouser [mailto:rmouser@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 July 2003 12:58
> To: Ukha
>
> A couple of questions:
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>
> Has anyone run their plasma on composite and could comment on the
> picture quality?
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> Can you run a composite feed across normal coax (Thinking retro fit
> here.)?
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> Many thanks
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> Rob
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