Posted by Resident Drunk on 08/31/06 16:10

the dog from that film you saw wrote:
> "Resident Drunk" <askmeforit@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:4loeefF2tq8gU1@individual.net...
>> I have a large collection of Laserdiscs which I would still like to watch
>> through my projector. Unfortunately I only have a Pioneer CLD-1750 which
>> outputs composite - not even S-Video.
>>
>> I have tried feeding the output through DScaler but the results are still
>> fairly dire with lots of colour banding.
>>
>> So my questions are :
>>
>> Does anyone know of a player which outputs RGB (and ideally could be
>> bought cheap on Ebay) ?
>
>
>
> unless i'm mistaken, the signal on a laserdisc is stored as composite -
> hence the lack of RGB output.
> it would be like having RGB output from a vhs machine (not a comment on the
> quality of laserdiscs btw)
>
> so even if you could hack a machine to do it, you'd still actually be
> outputting composite (in disguise).
>
>

I do know some players had SVideo output - would this be a 'fudge' and
not true SVideo ?

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