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TC   04-06-2004 at 10:48:11 PM

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I have a yellow RCA jack and s-video. Why use one over the other?

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Anonymous   04-07-2004 at 12:16:10 AM
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:48:11 GMT, "TC" <metrotex30@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have a yellow RCA jack and s-video. Why use one over the other?

svideo should feed a better quality of signal compared to the signal
from a rca jack.

BUT

only if the machine feeding the signal is feeding a true svideo
signal.

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Anonymous   04-06-2004 at 11:11:50 PM
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TC wrote:

> I have a yellow RCA jack and s-video. Why use one over the other?


http://nfg.2y.net/games/ntsc/video2.png

S-video prevents artifacts such as dot crawl. Take the "video2.png"
off of the above URL to read more about it if you're interested.


-WD

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TC   04-07-2004 at 03:21:09 AM
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Will Dormann wrote:

> TC wrote:
>
> > I have a yellow RCA jack and s-video. Why use one over the other?
>
>
> http://nfg.2y.net/games/ntsc/video2.png
>
> S-video prevents artifacts such as dot crawl. Take the "video2.png"
> off of the above URL to read more about it if you're interested.
>
>
> -WD

Thanks!

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