Different A/V cables (Image heavy)

[SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko]

Using ATI all-in-wonder 7500. It uses a dongle with a long cable, so results will vary on a real TV. Someone posted asking if a TV card is worth it, and I say: Worth it for pictures and not having to buy a brand new TV. I could just spend money on a good s-video cable and the capture card, and keep my old crummy TVs =>_<=

A:
http://users.adelphia.net/~snappurunyanko/gc/screens/cablea.JPG
B:
http://users.adelphia.net/~snappurunyanko/gc/screens/cableb.JPG
C:
http://users.adelphia.net/~snappurunyanko/gc/screens/cablec.JPG

Answers: Here (http://users.adelphia.net/~snappurunyanko/gc/screens/cables.txt)



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko on 2002-12-27 16:26 ]</font>

[watashiwa]

Hmm, to my eyes, the Monster one looks a bit better... >.>;

Maybe I should order one and do some comparison screenshots. I have the nintendo.com s-video cable...

[pErFeCt_34]

*looks at B* Oh god my eyes NOOOOOOOOOOO. I use a interact s-video cable and a ATI all in wonder radeon 7500 but for some reason my shots never look as good as snapples :/



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[SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko]

I turned up the brightness 20 notches... but I don't feel any smarter =-_-=

[faceless]

those 2 svids looks pretty much identical...

[BrokenHope]

Except the price difference between the 2 leads is about $20 for very little difference.

[Webapprentice]

I own the monster s-video cable that just goes to the TV directly. From looking at the screens for Nintendo and Monster, I would agree with the assessment that the only difference is price.

{Side note: I'm quite amused that the Nintendo Store doesn't support Netscape 6.x and tells you this.)

[MajinSSJVegetto]

I see one difference, brightness.
Why not just adjust that on your TV/CRT?

[Maelkith]

the nintendo s vids actually seem better to me because of the resolution. the monster cables show clipping and jaggies that the quality of the nintendo cant pick up. a somewhat poorer quality cable adds a bit of anti-aliasing.

to see what i mean, look at snaps outer thigh. jaggies are worse with monster cable.

[RagMasterRappy]

If anyone's still using a composite signal with a capture card, I will personally have to slap you..

[RagMasterRappy]

BTW, I just checked. In terms of quality, there's no differnece between the pictures of cables a and c. It seems that it's just a waste of money to switch from Nintendo's S-Video cable to the monster cables. That could be due to compression artifacts, but I don't have uncompressed image data to base these results on.