standard cable to s-video (1 Viewer)

[Christopher^S^]

I will be getting a new VCR and A/V receiver and would like to know if..... i have the Comcast cable coax coming into the VCR will it change that signal to S-video (the VCR will have an S-video out) to go into the receiver? I would like to have the receiver do all the video switching though s-video into the TV.

Thanks,

Christopher W. E. Smith

 

[Chun Lam]

It depends on the VCR. Almost all will convert a coax signal to standard RCA composite. I'm not sure about S-Video.

 

[Christopher^S^]

If some will and some will not, can someone tell me a good VCR that will (for $150 or less)?

 

[Bob McElfresh]

You are talking about a SVHS VCR and these will usually output SVideo.

Are you trying to get all your outputs to be Svideo? There is a $20 part from Radio Shack called a "Composite to SVideo" adaptor that takes the single, yellow output (called Composite) from a device and converts it to SVideo.

The quality wont be ... great, but it does work.