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ChadTower:

You don't even have to do that, you can use a $3 coax-rca adapter and get 95% of the benefit of a mod.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 21, 2007, 02:54:53 pm ---
You don't even have to do that, you can use a $3 coax-rca adapter and get 95% of the benefit of a mod.

--- End quote ---

Well, you won't have difficulty connecting it, but the video will still suck.

I guess thats subjective, how much crisper do you need the character in, say, Atari 2600 Adventure to be???

ChadTower:

I always find a marked improvement in the video when switching from a 25 year old low quality switchbox to a coax-rca adapter.  It eliminates the degradation from that old crappy inline part.  Every time.  This holds true over probably 100 instances of the consoles that this works with.

RayB:
Keep in mind that RF output has all video signals AND audio signals combined into one, with all the inherent signal bleed. I believe you a modern converter may look better than in the old days, but it still won't hold a candle to true S-Video output from the source.

ChadTower:

You mean S-video, yes?  Not the same as S-VHS, which is a specific standard for video cassettes.

Most of those old consoles don't have a place where you can pull the raw signals needed to put together a quality s-video signal.  They're not putting out a modern lum/chrom signal from anywhere in the circuit.  There are one or two of them you can get a decent S-video from but on most of them you're going to top out with a composite signal that requires a decent mod to get.

Now, you could construct a converter board to sit inside the case if you really wanted to, but given the simplicity of the graphics, it's not going to give you much more than you'll get from a clean native signal.

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