...also contain a yellow composite connection. I just found out the hard way that they are horrible. Connected it to both a CRT TV and an HDTV and it looks horrible.
Did a bit a goggleing and found many people saying things like..
The one without a composite plug! The combo cables have a really nasty habit of putting the composite signal through both luma and chroma signals on the S-Video plug, creating a horrible checkerboard screen effect.
Now i gota order new ones and wait forever (again)
I find that I learn lessons like this regarding cables and connectors very often. There's so much crap on the market you've really got to watch where you step.
Damn that sucks, thanks for posting this, good to know. I was about to order some s-video cables for my n64 sometime this week. Where are you buying some online without the yellow composite plug attached?
fuctfuct wrote:...also contain a yellow composite connection. I just found out the hard way that they are horrible. Connected it to both a CRT TV and an HDTV and it looks horrible.
Did a bit a goggleing and found many people saying things like..
The one without a composite plug! The combo cables have a really nasty habit of putting the composite signal through both luma and chroma signals on the S-Video plug, creating a horrible checkerboard screen effect.
Now i gota order new ones and wait forever (again)
Do you have links to any of the places you heard this? Kind of interested in finding out more...I have a universal cable that has s-video + composite on it, I'm wondering if it's worth buying a new cable.
I just found a bunch of forum posts about it. I can try to look for them again if you can't find them with goggle. I'm sure not ALL cables do it. But the ones i got sure did.
Yes they're pricey at $15 shipped, but anything beats shitty cables straight off of the boat from China. Also, while I'm a firm believer in cables don't really mean anything for the most part there is a HUGE difference between shitty and quality cables on any High end SD-TV such as the amazing Sony Trinitrons and their even higher grade hardware thanks to later advancements. With crappy cables it would look good, and better than composite, but with official, equivalent or better cables you get a brighter sharper and more colorful experience that even rivals component cables. If you have an HDTV though, then the best cables you can buy make a very large and extremely noticeable difference that is a big reason to spend a few bucks more. Less ghosting, less post filtering and no muddled outlines on objects that are usually seen when playing through Composite or low end S-Video cables on an HDTV.
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Composite + S-Video does not necessarily mean the cable will be bad. I've got a good set of the dual cables for my consoles (and these were the ones that also accepted Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft) and haven't seen any problems on my TV with picture quality.
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fuctfuct wrote:I'm sure not ALL cables do it. But the ones i got sure did.
I should note that on my CRT tv it still looked a teeny tiny bit better then composite but if you look you can still see the crappy "screen" look. Mostly on solid colors like when Resident Evil 4 tells you to press a button. On my HDTV it looks like your playing through a screen door.
