Page 1 of Another question for MikeG !

Hello mike.

Re- our last discussion on Black Level. I currently have my player running into the S-Video scart on the back of my television. I am impressed with the picture. It means I dont have to compromise my SKY picture as this is set to RGB AV1. However, I noticed something when I tested the player through the RGB socket. It appears that ` Black Level ` does not work when watching through RGB however, when in S-Video it really helps to distinguish dark colours from black hues. Is this correct ?

Secondly, what is your opinion on S-video and what does it offer that RGB does`nt ( vice versa ) as to me, it really seems to pick out the armour and armour decoration really well in films such as Gladiator and Braveheart. I have read the FAQ but it doesnt really tell me enough.

Ps, sound not an issue as into a seperate source.

Cheers in advace

Pete.

I`m not an expert and cannot answer your first bit but my opinion over svhs and rgb is that svhs just seems to clear up a few rough edges. My player is an Lg3200e and T.V is a philips 36 flat screen (quite large), when watching through RGB I noticed if I had the On Sreen menu (dvd) up there was a fuzzy digital image around all the writing. If I switched to Svhs this fuzzyness dissapeared, this also improved clarity of images on films.

On the black level control not working with RGB... I didn`t know that, but having looked, you`re right! I`ve no idea why.

RGB is the "purest" type of signal your TV can accept. Each of your TV`s electron guns - there are three, one for each of the primary colours of Red, Green and Blue - receives a separate feed from the source.

With S-Video, there`s just a single chroma (colour) signal which has to be separated into red, green and blue signals inside the TV set. Using this method, the colours can sometimes appear washed-out or "bleeding" due to interference, though the definition is usually just as good as a RGB image. (The advantages of RGB over S-Video are most noticeable with things like games consoles, where you have large areas of solid colours on the screen.)

Some TVs don`t handle the RGB input very well (or aren`t calibrated properly), which is why the S-Video input sometimes appears subjectively better when watching DVDs.


Mike