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SVideo Resolution

February 9th, 2007

So I was playing with the Sony FX1E HDV Video Camera (one of the first to record at 1080i) and the request was to push video out to the 63″ Samsung Plasma at work (yes, 63 )

We got an S-Video lead and it worked fine but the question came as to why the resolution seemed a little blurry/low. I didn’t know this but S-Video only outputs at 480i or 576i resolutions (so basically standard def resolution). To actually push out the content at a cool 1080i you needed to connect up the composite out and then into the composite IN on the TV. It looked lovely and was running at a cool 720p - the quality difference is significant to say the least. For those of us in England, high def stuff is still fairly new and not common place so actually seeing a film of yourself and people you know in HD is very cool

ON a complete side point I’m going to be wiping Vista from my hard disk (i hate it - i’ve been through all the versions since longhorn previews and the final thing is far from finished). I will be creating a lovely XP SP2 system with a partition for Ubuntu 6.10 EDGY. Im probably going to push myself to start using Ubuntu permenantly - I did for a bout 6 months a few years ago but I fancy going back to it!

Current setup: AMD 64 3400 - Fatality ABIT board - 2×200GB Maxtor SATA II - 2×350GD Seagate SATAII (1.1 Terrabytes ) - 2 GIG Corsair - 6800 GT Nvidia (Note: I dont play games much so I dont really need a great GFX).

I’m tempted to go forward to the Intel Core Duo but Im going to wait a while and see what happens - I hear that AMD is going to push out QUAD core soon so I am waiting on this.. I am an AMD fan boy!

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