S-Video gush thread
Wuerfel_21
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Have you ever used S-Video on the P1?
No? Well, you've been missing out! The picture is ABSOLUTELY IMMACULATE! It's a bit hard to capture on photo (and I haven't got the cabling to get S-video to my capture device...), but I think this pixel-doubled sprite from the JET demo shows it a bit. There's no fuzzy edges and no shimmering on scrolling patterns. It's also somehow even better at hiding horizontal chroma dithering (useful to get half-saturated colors)...
Anyways, wouldn't be a thread without a weird issue to troubleshoot: I've hooked my prop into the secondary, S-Video capable SCART socket. This is nice because the TV will automatically switch between S-Video and normal composite. Oddly enough,a few seconds after I started the non-Svideo version of the JET demo, the video cut out and the TV wouldn't accept any video from the prop at all for a while. This happened twice, but now I can't reproduce it anymore. I suspect some sort of input protection in the TV freaked out? idk.
Have you ever used S-Video on the P1?
No? Well, you've been missing out! The picture is ABSOLUTELY IMMACULATE! It's a bit hard to capture on photo (and I haven't got the cabling to get S-video to my capture device...), but I think this pixel-doubled sprite from the JET demo shows it a bit. There's no fuzzy edges and no shimmering on scrolling patterns. It's also somehow even better at hiding horizontal chroma dithering (useful to get half-saturated colors)...
Anyways, wouldn't be a thread without a weird issue to troubleshoot: I've hooked my prop into the secondary, S-Video capable SCART socket. This is nice because the TV will automatically switch between S-Video and normal composite. Oddly enough,a few seconds after I started the non-Svideo version of the JET demo, the video cut out and the TV wouldn't accept any video from the prop at all for a while. This happened twice, but now I can't reproduce it anymore. I suspect some sort of input protection in the TV freaked out? idk.
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(If you're wondering what that looks like: you do get color, but it's the scraps that bleed through, so it's extremely noisy and any edge has a giant rainbow around it...)