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honkey:


--- Quote from: ahofle on November 01, 2011, 04:17:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on November 01, 2011, 12:57:12 pm ---are those the same tube? same lighting? same camera?
not a fair comparison.

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+1
The S-Video photos were taken with a flash (which makes the colors appear washed out) and the VGA photos weren't

Here are some S-Video vs RGB (arcade monitor) comparison pics I took a while back (be sure to zoom in)...
TV/S-video

Arcade monitor

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I am a little ignorant when it comes to this type of thing... Why are the colors completely different? A while ago I was hoping that some people would post a few pictures of S-Video vs. Component on the same TV to show what difference it is. I have a chance to use an arcade monitor, but I am not sure I want to spend so much money on an Arcade VGA video card when I could use a TV with component and spend a quarter of the price on the video card, but if the difference is really that great, than I might reconsider and use the arcade monitor.

Malenko:

honkey, click on the KI2MAME link in my sig, you really cant tell when I switched from component to svideo

ahofle:


--- Quote from: honkey on November 01, 2011, 04:31:57 pm ---I am a little ignorant when it comes to this type of thing... Why are the colors completely different? A while ago I was hoping that some people would post a few pictures of S-Video vs. Component on the same TV to show what difference it is. I have a chance to use an arcade monitor, but I am not sure I want to spend so much money on an Arcade VGA video card when I could use a TV with component and spend a quarter of the price on the video card, but if the difference is really that great, than I might reconsider and use the arcade monitor.

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Honestly there are probably a few factors in play here.  The TV was a pretty crappy off brand and the brightness looks a little too high to me.  I really took the pics to illustrate the difference in clarity.  The S-Video out on most video cards is pretty bad and things bleed together quite a bit.  How much of that is a result of the crappy TV-out circuitry vs the actual S-Video signal is debatable, but I think most of it is due to the TV-out.

honkey:


--- Quote from: Malenko on November 01, 2011, 04:41:14 pm ---honkey, click on the KI2MAME link in my sig, you really cant tell when I switched from component to svideo

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To me, those pictures all look great. If you were to go play one of those games on the original arcade machine, do you think there would be a big difference in color like in the pictures ahofle posted? Did you change some settings to get it to look that good?

Malenko:

nope it was just a good tube

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