Posted By
Chicken
on 2010-10-31
14:41:38
 |  Re: interesting'n'funny stuff
Yeah, what's the point if you can use FBAS/Composite - Scart anyway? 
This might sound odd as usually s-video signals create a better picture but most likely, you'll get a better image quality by using FBAS instead of separated luma and chroma.
On my Commodore 1802 monitor (which was fed with luma and chroma) I had excellent picture quality. However, for most bigger TVs (CRT or others) this might not be true.
I didn't know this until TLC told me about it. (Maybe he even mentioned this in some other thread.) The problem is crosstalk. It's so bad that you might get a "tinted" (colored) picture when using just the luma signal alone (same cable on C64 provides a clean grayscale picture). I tried this and was surprized how bad it is.
Check out the border area in this picture:
http://retro.lonningdal.net/home.php?page=Computers&select=c16&image=c16i.jpg
This is a luma and chroma signal fed into a TFT. Not very convincing. So you should consider this when buying/soldering a cable.
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