Posted by Phil Wheeler on 11/03/05 23:41

GMAN wrote:
> In article <vNt8f.2861$Hs.2243@tornado.socal.rr.com>, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng4@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>geo wrote:
>>
>>>Will these camers have all the needed ports and connections to perform these
>>>transfers? Some have S-Video, what is the purpose of this?
>>
>>S-video is to play back to a TV with higher quality than with standard
>>composit video inputs. Personally, I do not expect you would see a
>>diffence unless camcorder is High Def.
>>
>>Phil
>
> If you cant see the diff between S-Video and composite, you need corrective
> eyeware.


Can on hi-def; not on 13" and smaller TV in bedroom.

But I do often watch the latter without my "corrective eyeware" (bad to
sleeep with those).

BTW -- my camcorder has not S-video: I just pop its DVD into my player.

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