RE: RGB to.....?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Oi, Tubby! Behave! ;-)
>
> Pot, kettle :P

You're just jealous that *I* could eat a whole Desperate Dan platter and
you
failed in your challenge...

> But WHY dad? Isn't vga a standard, so they should all be
> pretty much the same?

As a connector, yes, but as to what you can shove up that connector, no.

If you want to put video up VGA then it needs to support 15kHz interlaced
... Shove 15kHz interlaced up the VGA port of your PC monitor and see what
it does. (Most PC monitors haven't supported below 31kHz since the days of
Commodore Amigas and even then there weren't many that would handle 15kHz.)

If ya wanna grumble about anything being non-standard then really it's a
VGA
input that can *TAKE* 15kHz interlaced that is not "normal". :-P

> > > Is this actually any better than RGB->RGB?
> >
> > Nope - there really is feck all difference between RGB and
> component
> > for quality.
>
> So why bother with component - for progressive scan?

Because the Yanks have no idea what RGB and SCART are - they have had DVD
players with component video outputs for a few years whereas component
video
here really was only a broadcasters tool.

As it is, many flat panel displays seem to be able to accept component
video
in through VGA or DVI terminals via adapters (this is how Philips and
Thomson do it) - one of the panels I was looking at wouldn't accept good
old
interlaced component video up its component inputs (only Hi-Def 720p or
1080i) so if you wanted to feed it "normal" component video you
had a VGA to
tails adaptor which you then plugged into a DVI to VGA adaptor and then
plugged into the ruddy DVI connector!

> > To be absolutely honest you'll probably find that your biggest
loss of
> > quality will be from the device rescaling the image to its native
> > panel resolution. I bought a 32"
>
> Nooooooo!!!!

Yup - built in scalers are (generally) shite.

> It does sound like a good idea, but I'm not getting a pc into
> the lounge unless it is *very* small and noise free.
> Judging by some of the comments by others, this just ain't
> gonna happen to run the sweetspot :(

No but he also does what is reported to be a bloody nice hardware scaler
too...

Phil