The best connection for video?
Posted by: tonym on 21 January 2005
Hello folks. I'm currently pondering a problem which I'm sure my excellent dealer (Rayleigh Hi-Fi) will be able to answer, but I'd appreciate a bit of advice. It's a bit complicated, and concerns the routing of a video signal to best advantage. Although I've got totally Naim amplification for 7 channels, that's all working fine!
Several things have happened at once. Firstly, the wife bought me an X-box gaming console for Xmas. It's got some wonderful games, but me being an old fart, I can't make head nor tail of them! I digress. Next, I decided to have my TagMclaren DVD32R upgraded to include a video deinterlacer module. Main reason for this is because the mod. also gives me a digital output which I can feed directly to My Sim2 300 Xtra DLP projector's HDMI input. It also allows me to feed an S video and composite signal through the module, and then out through said digital feed. The component output of the TAG is preserved. So far so good. However, I learned that the X-box, although supplied with stereo phono & composite output leads, also outputs a digital audio and RGB video signal, requiring just a change of lead to achieve. No mention of this fact in any of the X-Box literature!
I currently use a Sky+ box for TV viewing, using an S video feed direct to the projector. My question is, what's the best option here? Can I feed the SCART RGB from the X-box through the Sky+ box, then via an RGB/Component converter direct to the projector? Or am I better off feeding the S video through the TAG to be processed by the deinterlacer and thence to the projector via the digital feed? Then just sending the RGB signal from the X-Box direct to the projector? (I'm not sure how to do this bit yet, but there must be a way. The projector has four inputs for RGB+ sync. signal)
Complicated, innit? Any advice will be warmly welcomed!!
Several things have happened at once. Firstly, the wife bought me an X-box gaming console for Xmas. It's got some wonderful games, but me being an old fart, I can't make head nor tail of them! I digress. Next, I decided to have my TagMclaren DVD32R upgraded to include a video deinterlacer module. Main reason for this is because the mod. also gives me a digital output which I can feed directly to My Sim2 300 Xtra DLP projector's HDMI input. It also allows me to feed an S video and composite signal through the module, and then out through said digital feed. The component output of the TAG is preserved. So far so good. However, I learned that the X-box, although supplied with stereo phono & composite output leads, also outputs a digital audio and RGB video signal, requiring just a change of lead to achieve. No mention of this fact in any of the X-Box literature!
I currently use a Sky+ box for TV viewing, using an S video feed direct to the projector. My question is, what's the best option here? Can I feed the SCART RGB from the X-box through the Sky+ box, then via an RGB/Component converter direct to the projector? Or am I better off feeding the S video through the TAG to be processed by the deinterlacer and thence to the projector via the digital feed? Then just sending the RGB signal from the X-Box direct to the projector? (I'm not sure how to do this bit yet, but there must be a way. The projector has four inputs for RGB+ sync. signal)
Complicated, innit? Any advice will be warmly welcomed!!
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Originally posted by tonym:
Firstly, the wife bought me an X-box gaming console for Xmas. It's got some wonderful games, but me being an old fart, I can't make head nor tail of them!
Well first off, after reviewing your list of extremely pleasing home theatre equipment I am prepared to offer you personal tuition in everything Xbox free of charge. That's right completely free. I won't even ask for train money.
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My question is, what's the best option here?
Ok. I'm no expert but I'll attempt to help. Assuming the TAG is decent....cough cough.......routing everything through that is probably the best, and easiest, option. I assume that any input is converted into the HDMI format and carried to the projector? For best quality go for component from both boxes (Sky and Xbox) but failing that RGB carried via scart or whatever is fine...
This all relies on the fact that the TAG is better than the SIM at processing analogue signals to digital.
Have fun!
J