Wednesday, 01 April 1998
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Written by
Kim Wilson
Introduction
Upgrading the picture quality of your home theater is as simple as
tossing aside those coax cables and using the S-Video connections
you've may have had all along. As always, you should use the best
possible cable for any connection, but Camelot Technology takes it a
step further with their Powered S-Video Cable.
The S-Video (also known as Y/C Video) connection incorporates the comb
filters built into Laserdisc players and transmits the luminance (Y)
and chrominance (C) portions of the video signal separately. Luminance,
the black and white portion of the video signal, provides the
brightness information. Chrominance, the color portion of the video
signal, carries information about the hue and saturation. By
transmitting Y & C on two separate wires, you avoid the compromised
picture common to composite video (NTSC) which mingles (and mangles)
the two signals together.
The Excalibur Powered S-Video Cable provides one S-Video input (from
your video source) and one S-Video ...
