Hookup S Video on DVD Player?

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:02 pm

OK, this may sound really dumb but here goes anyway.

I just got my first ever DVD player to go along with my vhs.

I have both video out and S Video out on the DVD player and corresponding jacks on the TV.

Now this is what I am not really sure of.

The DVD instructions say if you want to use the S Video, hook it up to the TV IN ADDITION to hooking up the regular Video out jack.

Is that right or is that a typo? I thought you used either one or the other, not both. So which is it?

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:45 pm

hmmm my dvd player uses only the s video or the rca plugs. you might need to hook the sound via the audio in with the s-vid. hope this helps

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 8:00 pm

Huh?

I am not talking about the audio jacks, those are separate from the Video and S Video jacks.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 8:17 pm

LoL.. Just Try It, it can't kill anything (or anyone) lol.. I'm pretty sure you only have to have the S-Video cable hooked up, that's all I have.. GL eGo

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:04 pm

You use either the composite video OR the S-Video. It's one or the other, you don't need both. Probably a case of a poorly translated manual.

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:49 pm

That's what I figured. I kept re-reading the manual (it's a JVC DVD player, model XV-S402SL) to see if I was misunderstanding when it said in "addition to". I have it hooked up now with both the regular 'video' jack AND the 'S video'. I will unhook that regular video and leave the s video. The instructions say I was supposed to see "S Video" in the DVD display for a few seconds after turning it on each time but I never see it. Maybe I will after unhooking the regular video jack.

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:57 pm

does the s- cord have video and audio in it

me

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:05 pm

No. S Video is video only. It is supposed to have better image quality than the regular Video jack. There is still yet another video out called Component Video (that's supposed to be the best of the three). It is actually 3 jacks (all video). I do have that on my DVD player but not on my TV.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:54 pm

yea in order of quality, lowest to best:

single Yellow RCA
Black Svid
3 rca component (blue, red, green)

you only pick one.

Greg

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:59 pm

Well I'm now running the S Video only and have learned for the most part what everything does in my DVD instruction manual. Being this was my first DVD, everything was quite a bit different from my old VCR.

I rented a couple of DVD's for the first time this weekend. I made the mistake of not reading the boxes thoroughly enough and both were letter box format only. I do not like letter box, never have. The DVD has options to convert to either 16x9 or the standard 4x3. But that does not work if the DVD is explicitly formatted for letter box only. Now if I had a new TV with a 16x9 screen it would be OK but I hate having part of the screen taken away from me with my 27 inch TV. I bought the dam thing to view the complete screen. Now there are two formats to have to mess with and some TV channels are moving more and more to the wide format forcing everyone with 4/3 screens to have to put up with about 3 inches of screen taken away from them. Dam, it's too bad they haven't figured out how to broadcast it so it would display in full screen no matter what screen size the TV was.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:06 pm

I dont know, I prefer the widescreen. You atleast get to see the whole movie. 2 each there own though.

This new FP I got Sucks ass for tv or movie watching.

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:08 pm

I personally can't watch a DVD UNLESS it's in letterbox. If you watch it in Pan & Scan then you're NOT seeing it the way the director originally intended you to see it.

Granted some movies today are shot to make them easy to adapt to Pan & Scan, but a grandious film with wide panoramic shots like Star Wars, Private Ryan, LOFR, etc. is just totaly ruined in Pan & Scan.

Watch a classic like Bridge over the River Kwai or Andromeda Strain in letter box and then in Pan and Scan and you'll see the difference. You can't even follow what's going on unless it's in widescreen.

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:47 pm

Well like Nexus said, to each his own I guess. Like I said, I wouldn't mind letter box if I had a wide screen TV. I just don't like the idea of having a 27 inch screen and have it cut down by 3 inches (1 1/2 inches on top and bottom) all across the screen. All movies are formatted for regular TV screens and I have not noticed me missing anything. I mean it's not like two people are talking and one is off screen or anything. I have not noticed any scenes that some intricate part was not there for me to see because the view was not as wide. Maybe I'm just a shallow dude that didn't notice what I was supposed to eh? I bought the 27" (can't presently afford anything bigger right now) so everything would be bigger. With Letter box I have to watch it back smaller again to get the little wider view.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 12:27 am

With pan and scan, a second director decides what part of the widescreen image you see at any time. He can pan left and right within the original widescreen image.

As I said, many modern flicks are filmed with this in mind (for cost effectiveness) but many more films were MEANT to be seen in widescreen. For example, there are a LOT of scenes in Gone With the Wind where there's two actors on each end of the widescreen talking to each other. In widescreen you see them both at the same time, perhaps with some vista between them to set the mood, while in Pan & Scan you see the camera pan or cut back and forth between them which destroys the visual mood the original director intended. Also wide panoramas are lost.

Some better explanations and visual examples here:
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/letterb.php3

You're not missing anything when you watch letterbox - far from it, you're seeing the whole movie as it was originally presented in the theater. I can't understand why anyone would want to watch a butchered film. Even before DVDs came out I paid the extra money for widescreen versions of films in VHS which were hard to find.

A film like Apollo 13 is not even worth watching in Pan & Scan in my opinion.

So what if you have a 3" black stripe above and below the image in widescreen? After a few minutes your eyes ignore it. As long as you're watching it on a decent size screen I don't see the problem - doesn't have to be huge. I watch most movies on a 19" VCR/DVD combo in my bedroom, not the 40" in the living room.

I want to see the whole movie, not someone's interpretation of what Hitchcock would have wanted if he couldn't use the whole screen.

If a Van Gogh or Rembrant doesn't fit on a wall in a museum, you don't butcher the canvas to make it fit - you display it as it was intended on another wall. Same thing should go for motion pictures. A good film is a work of art - it's a crime to butcher it.

Colorization is another thing I can't stand. I prefer to watch a film like Casablanca with the mood and lighting that the original director intended, not with artificial colors that may completely alter the mood from the original intent, or distract you from what the director originally wanted to focus your eyes on in a given scene.

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Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 12:43 am

Heh heh, good one.

I have had some things said, er, intimating, er, some subtle indications, er disagreeing with, er, my opinion also.

Heh heh.

Anyway, I see what you are saying. I JUST LIKE SEEING MY WHOLE SCREEN!!!! There, I said it.

But it's only MY OPINION.

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