36" Sony Trinitron Component Input

Better color accuracy and in general improved picture quality.

With an RGB to component transcoder, I'd say there is no better way to play old consoles like the SNES than on a big SD Trinitron like yours.

Not sure if you're into video games, though.

480i over component will provide a better picture quality than rf, composite or s-video. I you have been viewing DVD on this set and not using component, then you have been missing a lot.

The transcoder thing again?

I don't know about missing a lot and I would venture to say that the difference between S-Video and Component to the naked eye is very hard to distinguish. S-Video carries the full DVD resolution. Obviously, if we are talking Component passing Progressive Scan DVD, Component wins because S-Video can't pass a Progressive Scan signal.

It's not a big step up like going from Composite to S-Video.



I don't know how it can provide better color accuracy than S-Video at 480i. S-Video is actually component video as well so they are both one in the same. One passes 2 components separately and one passes 3 components separately.

They both have the same mission.

You are correct about the S-Video vs. component comparison. I was assuming the OP had only used composite RCA inputs. I should have been more specific.

Component have more accurate color than S-video by breaking down color information even further than S-video.

The only similarity between component and s-video is that they both carry luma (black&while/resolution) information separate from chroma (color) information. And that is where the similarity end.

The difference begin where in s-video, color information is carried in one wire. But in component, the color information is broke down in two wires where blue cable carry difference between blue and luma, and red cable carry difference between red and luma. Green cable only carry Luma information.

A green color is not sent as the color can be interpolated using the blue, red and luma information. This is done to save bandwidth.

Yeah, and really he may have been using composite, but lets hope not

And again, is that extra bandwith going to create a noticably better picture on a 480i to 480i connection?

Extra bandwidth saved by using difference leads? Of course that won't make a visible difference vs. RGB at 480i.

S-Video eliminates composite's dot crawl but is nonetheless inferior to component video.