S video or component for interlaced (1 Viewer)

[Kevin_Kr]

I am going to be hooking up a Panasonic RP91 to a 48" sony analog tv i have heard from some that s video would give a better picture than component for this fashion. What are your thoughts? thanks

 

[Bob McElfresh]

Home Theater magazine did a comparison of all 3 video connections to a reference 50" RPTV:

Composite (single video cable): baseline

SVideo (funny keyboard connector): 20% better than Composite

Component (3 video cables): 25% better than Composite.

So I think you ment SVideo will give you a better picture than Composite.

Here is what I did: I ran SVideo straight to the TV from the DVD player. But from the CATV/DSS/VCR & DVD, I ran Composite through the receiver.

Leaving the TV to "see" the composite feed from the receiver made the system easy to use for the wife/kids. The receiver remote did all the switching.

But when I sit down to watch a DVD, I take the extra step of flipping to the direct SVideo feed for the cleaner picture. This also makes a great demo to show yourself/friends how much better SVideo looks over Composite.

Hope this helps.