[BNM] [OT] Mac-mini media centre > DVI -> S Video -> Scart ?

[Barry Prendergast]

How embarrasing! lol. I wonder how they send the Hue and Saturation in one
channel? Back to the wiki with me! ;)

On 09/01/2008, Barry Bloye <bbloye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/01/2008, Barry Prendergast wrote:
> > S-Video and NTSC [american TV colour model] actually uses 3 channels -
> Hue
> > Saturation & Brightness.
> > RCA/Scart and PAL [european model] uses regular old RGB.
>
> According to a few sources I've checked on the web (including good ol'
> Wikipedia), S-video only uses two channels -- one for brightness
> (luminance or 'Y') and another for colour (chrominance or 'C').
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-video
>
> I'm guessing a SCART converter would mix these two channels in to a
> single composite channel rather than breaking it up in to RGB, hence
> the drop in quality.
>
> B
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