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Hi folks;
Hope yall had a nice Eve and wish you the best holiday. If Santa is welcome at your house I hope he needs a Tractor-trailer to bring you good stuff ![]() Now that things have settled down . . . . One of the things I did today was to go hook up a new PC system, integrated with the A/V stuff. Cable signal also goes to the PC and we ran back SVHS and L/R to the TV (Mits. 35MX1). I thought the TVO portion of the ATI All in wonder wasn't working. Switching to a regular input worked, I used the right audio cable for the composite video. Now there is another issue. We could just run composite but this is no good, the signal is slightly off standard (it is) and the Mitses COMB filter doesn't work well with it. Some frequency is set different, when a saturated color comes on, the dots are stationary. You see them on alot of NTSC sets, and with one line COMB filters the first line of a saturated block displays a serration, or if the COMB isn't working correctly a hatch pattern throughout the colored block or object. However, on a "legal" NTSC signal this pattern appears to move. This is of course because the designers of the system chose the frequencies used so they would cause cause "interlace". On the ATI card output, the "hanging dots" are stationary on a stationary image. The chroma frequency must be shifted slightly, and I believe intentionally, to simplify encoding (ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder w/ 64MB, remote), thus making the SVHS cable necessary. We lack the original remote to the set and can't seem to get it into the SVHS mode. Being a tech. I think I can force it into the SVHS mode no matter what system control says, but that is some work, especially in this installation. Note that as a tech I absolutely refuse to try to align the COMB filter to this source. This would degrade all normal inputs. Also, I wonder, will a VCR record that non-standard signal ? Probably I think, but I wonder just how much it's degraded. Luminance will be filtering out a 3.5???? Mhz signal, which might not bother it too much. The chroma noise reduction scheme will probably be quite compromised though, it might even record in black and white. Recording VHS from this source is not the important point, image quality is, this is way worse than it should be, and the COMB filter is working, but when the frequency is off. . . . . I guess we need to get it switched to the SVHS input. Advice, comment, suggestion ? Thanx for anything on this and thanx for even reading this. Merry, happy, joyful Christmas, Chanukah, Kwaanza (sorry if I spelled it wrong), Ceremony of the Rebirth, whatever you have,I wish you a good one. JURB |
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I was under the impression Mits TV's had a small contact switch in the SVHS
socket that selected it when the plug was in on Input 1... |
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There isn't a huge difference between Svideo and Composite. Specialy since
what is coming in from the cable like isn't even SVIDEO quality. I don't really see your problem besides switching the TV inputs, but try a universal remote. "JURB6006" wrote in message ... Hi folks; Hope yall had a nice Eve and wish you the best holiday. If Santa is welcome at your house I hope he needs a Tractor-trailer to bring you good stuff ![]() Now that things have settled down . . . . One of the things I did today was to go hook up a new PC system, integrated with the A/V stuff. Cable signal also goes to the PC and we ran back SVHS and L/R to the TV (Mits. 35MX1). I thought the TVO portion of the ATI All in wonder wasn't working. Switching to a regular input worked, I used the right audio cable for the composite video. Now there is another issue. We could just run composite but this is no good, the signal is slightly off standard (it is) and the Mitses COMB filter doesn't work well with it. Some frequency is set different, when a saturated color comes on, the dots are stationary. You see them on alot of NTSC sets, and with one line COMB filters the first line of a saturated block displays a serration, or if the COMB isn't working correctly a hatch pattern throughout the colored block or object. However, on a "legal" NTSC signal this pattern appears to move. This is of course because the designers of the system chose the frequencies used so they would cause cause "interlace". On the ATI card output, the "hanging dots" are stationary on a stationary image. The chroma frequency must be shifted slightly, and I believe intentionally, to simplify encoding (ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder w/ 64MB, remote), thus making the SVHS cable necessary. We lack the original remote to the set and can't seem to get it into the SVHS mode. Being a tech. I think I can force it into the SVHS mode no matter what system control says, but that is some work, especially in this installation. Note that as a tech I absolutely refuse to try to align the COMB filter to this source. This would degrade all normal inputs. Also, I wonder, will a VCR record that non-standard signal ? Probably I think, but I wonder just how much it's degraded. Luminance will be filtering out a 3.5???? Mhz signal, which might not bother it too much. The chroma noise reduction scheme will probably be quite compromised though, it might even record in black and white. Recording VHS from this source is not the important point, image quality is, this is way worse than it should be, and the COMB filter is working, but when the frequency is off. . . . . I guess we need to get it switched to the SVHS input. Advice, comment, suggestion ? Thanx for anything on this and thanx for even reading this. Merry, happy, joyful Christmas, Chanukah, Kwaanza (sorry if I spelled it wrong), Ceremony of the Rebirth, whatever you have,I wish you a good one. JURB |
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This is a silly overgeneralization. There can be a very noticeable
difference between S and composite video. It depends on the source/destination combination. As for the original question, I am not familiar with the output of your video card but I suspect that you may be seeing the effect of the comb filter combined with scan artifacts. The card may not be properly interlacing for an NTSC output. The Mits could also have a problem. It should automatically select S-video when the you connect it and switch to that input. I don't recall having any menu options that affect this on these models. Leonard Caillouet "red" wrote in message ... There isn't a huge difference between Svideo and Composite. Specialy since what is coming in from the cable like isn't even SVIDEO quality. I don't really see your problem besides switching the TV inputs, but try a universal remote. "JURB6006" wrote in message ... Hi folks; Hope yall had a nice Eve and wish you the best holiday. If Santa is welcome at your house I hope he needs a Tractor-trailer to bring you good stuff ![]() Now that things have settled down . . . . One of the things I did today was to go hook up a new PC system, integrated with the A/V stuff. Cable signal also goes to the PC and we ran back SVHS and L/R to the TV (Mits. 35MX1). I thought the TVO portion of the ATI All in wonder wasn't working. Switching to a regular input worked, I used the right audio cable for the composite video. Now there is another issue. We could just run composite but this is no good, the signal is slightly off standard (it is) and the Mitses COMB filter doesn't work well with it. Some frequency is set different, when a saturated color comes on, the dots are stationary. You see them on alot of NTSC sets, and with one line COMB filters the first line of a saturated block displays a serration, or if the COMB isn't working correctly a hatch pattern throughout the colored block or object. However, on a "legal" NTSC signal this pattern appears to move. This is of course because the designers of the system chose the frequencies used so they would cause cause "interlace". On the ATI card output, the "hanging dots" are stationary on a stationary image. The chroma frequency must be shifted slightly, and I believe intentionally, to simplify encoding (ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder w/ 64MB, remote), thus making the SVHS cable necessary. We lack the original remote to the set and can't seem to get it into the SVHS mode. Being a tech. I think I can force it into the SVHS mode no matter what system control says, but that is some work, especially in this installation. Note that as a tech I absolutely refuse to try to align the COMB filter to this source. This would degrade all normal inputs. Also, I wonder, will a VCR record that non-standard signal ? Probably I think, but I wonder just how much it's degraded. Luminance will be filtering out a 3.5???? Mhz signal, which might not bother it too much. The chroma noise reduction scheme will probably be quite compromised though, it might even record in black and white. Recording VHS from this source is not the important point, image quality is, this is way worse than it should be, and the COMB filter is working, but when the frequency is off. . . . . I guess we need to get it switched to the SVHS input. Advice, comment, suggestion ? Thanx for anything on this and thanx for even reading this. Merry, happy, joyful Christmas, Chanukah, Kwaanza (sorry if I spelled it wrong), Ceremony of the Rebirth, whatever you have,I wish you a good one. JURB |
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Look for properties tab of your video card, there you mught find options to
change the way the card renders TV output. Be sure to be using video driver that comes with card. JURB6006 expuso: Hi folks; Hope yall had a nice Eve and wish you the best holiday. If Santa is welcome at your house I hope he needs a Tractor-trailer to bring you good stuff ![]() Now that things have settled down . . . . One of the things I did today was to go hook up a new PC system, integrated with the A/V stuff. Cable signal also goes to the PC and we ran back SVHS and L/R to the TV (Mits. 35MX1). I thought the TVO portion of the ATI All in wonder wasn't working. Switching to a regular input worked, I used the right audio cable for the composite video. Now there is another issue. We could just run composite but this is no good, the signal is slightly off standard (it is) and the Mitses COMB filter doesn't work well with it. Some frequency is set different, when a saturated color comes on, the dots are stationary. You see them on alot of NTSC sets, and with one line COMB filters the first line of a saturated block displays a serration, or if the COMB isn't working correctly a hatch pattern throughout the colored block or object. However, on a "legal" NTSC signal this pattern appears to move. This is of course because the designers of the system chose the frequencies used so they would cause cause "interlace". On the ATI card output, the "hanging dots" are stationary on a stationary image. The chroma frequency must be shifted slightly, and I believe intentionally, to simplify encoding (ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder w/ 64MB, remote), thus making the SVHS cable necessary. We lack the original remote to the set and can't seem to get it into the SVHS mode. Being a tech. I think I can force it into the SVHS mode no matter what system control says, but that is some work, especially in this installation. Note that as a tech I absolutely refuse to try to align the COMB filter to this source. This would degrade all normal inputs. Also, I wonder, will a VCR record that non-standard signal ? Probably I think, but I wonder just how much it's degraded. Luminance will be filtering out a 3.5???? Mhz signal, which might not bother it too much. The chroma noise reduction scheme will probably be quite compromised though, it might even record in black and white. Recording VHS from this source is not the important point, image quality is, this is way worse than it should be, and the COMB filter is working, but when the frequency is off. . . . . I guess we need to get it switched to the SVHS input. Advice, comment, suggestion ? Thanx for anything on this and thanx for even reading this. Merry, happy, joyful Christmas, Chanukah, Kwaanza (sorry if I spelled it wrong), Ceremony of the Rebirth, whatever you have,I wish you a good one. JURB |
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