Picture quality of s-video?

[DaiShan]

How is the quality of s-video on a tv from a computer? Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[jaeger66]

Depends on source and display.

 

[Sheriff]

Not as good as a CRT/LCD

 

[TheCorm]

It's limited by the TV...expect watchable videos and viewable images but don't be thinking you can use it as a monitor....trying to read the text will mess up your eyes!

Jamie

 

[Boogak]

Agreed, ok for movies and games, just don't expect to surf the web with it. Text will be blurry.

 

[isaacmacdonald]

It's obviously just for SDTV... but

It's substantially better than the competing interfaces:

1. Composite RCA: Exhibits "dot crawl", which is the annoying-as-hell patterns that seep together at the edges of patches of color. EEK

2. RF: very ugly, prone to nasty disturbance patterns and also exhibits dot-crawl.

S-video sepperates chrom and lum, so you get pretty much get as much as can be gotten from a standard definition TV, but that's not a whole lot (720x480 interlaced). Still, it's better than the alternatives.