Posted: 12/29/2005 12:15:56 AM EDT
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Composite, Optical, RCA or S-video? Need to buy a new DVD player, my old "bank handout" DVD just died. I will be hooking up to a samsung DLP. So what is the most high speed low drag connection method? EDIT: Crap, the first RCA choice should be optical. 
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| Mainly video, I don't desire to hook up audio to my downstairs TV. Thats what my media room is for. Unfortunately, my front projector/DVD/audio (media room) is kinda old, only has RCA and S-video connections. I don't really have any practical experiance in the new connection methods, pros-cons ect. |
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No, all my runs are less than 5'. S-video really, someone told me that the Composite, I hope I'm calling the Blue, green and other cable by the right name, is supposed to better than S-video. My home theater skills are not current at all and I feel like a total noob looking at specs on current audio and video equipment. |
That would be component (red, green, blue) but I thought you said your TV only had regular video and S-video. If you have the ability to go component do that instead. In terms of video hookups heres the rundown on worst to best. F-connector(75ohm) video(yellow jack also called composite) S-video Component and DVI are tied in my opinion. I can't tell the difference |
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Sorry, I shouldn’t have muddied the water. I have 2 DLP rigs. Upstairs, media room front projection 2-3 yrs old only RCA and S-video. New DLP downstairs, rear projection with every bell and whistle I could find. Your rundown of signal quality is on par with what I thought would be the hierarchy, but not 100% sure of myself on this. Thanks! |
I believe in order to see the difference is when you watch Patton when he is giving the speech at the beginning in front of the flag the "Moire" pattern disappears with component but still visible with S-video. |