Best Picture On Tele

Unidentified Assilant · Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:07 am

What do you think can give you the best picture on a tele?

RF (Not Likely)
RGB/SCART
Composite
S-Video

I used my PS2 with Composite and got exactly the same picture with RGB

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:24 am

from best to worst:

RGB
S-Video
Composite
RF

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:47 am

bicostp wrote:from best to worst:

RGB
S-Video
Composite
RF

you forgot componet one step below RGB

Post by **Triton** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:27 am

component is one below s-video i thought? i think so

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:02 pm

Oops. I never used component, only composite and s-video.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:02 pm

no component is like s-video but slightly better. Everything in america uses it instead of rgb

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:38 pm

Yeah, but component can support HD and progressive scan. RGB can't do that. Or can it?

Unidentified Assilant · Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:37 am

I don't use composite, S-Video or Component, in fact, in England, its impossible to get a tv that supports S-Video (for some reason)

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:04 pm

Probably because they have SCART, which is way better. Why support another format, when so many things use a better one?

gotchocolatemilk2 · Post by **gotchocolatemilk2** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:02 pm

the only problem with scart I've heard is that the plug is horribly hard to plug into the back of your tv if you can't physically be back there

Alchemist · Post by **Alchemist** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:01 am

You get used to it

Component RGB (YPbPr: luminance, Blue+Chrominance, Red+Chrominance) is somewhat questionably higher quality than standard RGB. Component should not to be confused with composite.

RGB: Red, Green and Blue. Comes through SCART here in Europe, when supported by the TV

S-Video (Y/V:Luminance+Chrominance), not as high quality as any of the above. Is also a component video signal of sorts since it separates the video into two components - Y and V.

Composite (YUV composited onto a single signal) Pretty crappy.

RF: sticks everything (audio and video) onto one signal. Nasty.

Unidentified Assilant wrote:I don't use composite, S-Video or Component, in fact, in England, its impossible to get a tv that supports S-Video (for some reason)

Um... SCART has support for either S-video or RGB, so either way you've got some way of getting a decent quality image to your TV.

goodie wrote:Yeah, but component can support HD and progressive scan. RGB can't do that. Or can it?

No, RGB can't. It's an analogue signal comprised purely of colour signals. Depending on what you mean by "component video", yes it can... mostly people mean YPbPr, which is the basis for HDTV as I recall. Don't forget though that any video signal with more than one component (chrominance/luminance) can be considered component video.

OfWolfAndMan · Post by **OfWolfAndMan** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:43 am

True, like English PS2's, they have RGB plugs and come with a SCART to RGB connector, and you get can get S-Video to SCART, which I've only just seen, my new tele has support for Composite/AV (on front), SCART and RF