Timeline for Does using an S-Video output via a SCART connector improve the output quality of a VCR?
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| Apr 14, 2020 at 2:18 | comment | added | stib | Yeah, I think the RGB pins are for digital equipment like set-top boxes and so on. I think they also get used for the S-video and component signal too, but I'm from Australia so my working knowledge of scart is similarly limited. I think if you search for 'scart component converter' you'll get better results — here's the first page from my duckduckgo search, they have several: selby.com.au/cables/scart-cables/to-component.html You'd need something like the BlackMagic Intensity to digitise it, once you go compnent the price increases a bit. | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 22:52 | comment | added | Michael Liebman | @stib since I'm in the US, I really haven't encountered SCART in practice, so I can only go off the documentation, which shows RGB pins. The wikipedia article mentions some manufacturers using those pins for HD color difference signals. And while I was speaking hypothetically about component being higher quality than S-Video, I agree that it is highly unlikely to find something capable of handling it. | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 12:08 | comment | added | stib | I think that RGB digitisers don't exist because the only tape machines that produce RGB signals were high-end specialised post production machines. Or are you talking about component (Y-pR-pB) when you say RGB? | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 12:05 | comment | added | stib | Consumer grade tape equipment doesn't have RGB output. S-VHS is Y/C encoded, so to get a RGB signal you'd have to decode it, which is normally done by the screen. An S-Video output will give you the best quality you could hope for from S-VHS. There might be some advantage for VHS because you won't get any electrical interference from the cable, but most S-VHS players I've used only output a composite signal if you put in a standard VHS tape. | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | simonet | You said that using a SCART breakout with RGB outputs gives you an even better output quality. With a brief research on the internet I wasn't able to find any video grabber for digitizing VHSs with RGB inputs. All of them seem to have only the composite input and the S-Video input. Why? | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 19:11 | history | answered | Michael Liebman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |