Different types of video output - I'm confused

I have a new DVD player (Logik LD3330 - yes, I'm a cheapskate who
wanted to try making DIVXs of home movies). I'm rather confused by the
large number of video outputs. It has a SCART cable, and the manual
says to set video output to TV-RGB if using SCART. It also has YPbPr
component video output, Composite video output, and S-Video output. As
far as I can tell from reading on the web, Composite is bad, all the
others are better. My TV is a Toshiba 21S23. This has only SCART
input, and composite video input (one, on the front). The specs on
Toshiba site list its input as SCART 2, RGB 1. S-Video is listed as
"SCART only". I'm not sure what they mean listing the RGB input
separate to the SCART connections.

Can I presume that the DVD is outputting RGB video through SCART, and
the television is reading this information during DVD playback. Hence
new/fancy cables are unlikely to give me a better picture? Or, is
there something which means that I could be getting worse pictures
from my setup than I should do?

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:02:47 -0700, "robotiser@googlemail.com"
<robotiser@googlemail.com> wrote:

>I have a new DVD player (Logik LD3330 - yes, I'm a cheapskate who
>wanted to try making DIVXs of home movies). I'm rather confused by the
>large number of video outputs. It has a SCART cable, and the manual
>says to set video output to TV-RGB if using SCART. It also has YPbPr
>component video output, Composite video output, and S-Video output. As
>far as I can tell from reading on the web, Composite is bad, all the
>others are better. My TV is a Toshiba 21S23. This has only SCART
>input, and composite video input (one, on the front). The specs on
>Toshiba site list its input as SCART 2, RGB 1. S-Video is listed as
>"SCART only". I'm not sure what they mean listing the RGB input
>separate to the SCART connections.

It probably means it has two SCARTs, one of which is RGB capable. I
suspect the other one is S-Video capable.

I don't know Toshiba TVs, but it's usual for manufacturers to make
SCART1 the RGB-capable one.

If RGB is enabled on the DVD player SCART, the TV should automatically
switch to RGB input. You could see if you can switch RGB off in the
player setup menu and see if there's a difference - find a DVD menu
with lots of fine text on it, this should show off the difference
quite well.

Steve

The Doctor Who Restoration Team Website
http://www.restoration-team.co.uk

On Jul 25, 1:27 pm, steverobe...@compuserve.com (Steve Roberts) wrote:
> It probably means it has two SCARTs, one of which is RGB capable. I
> suspect the other one is S-Video capable.
>
> I don't know Toshiba TVs, but it's usual for manufacturers to make
> SCART1 the RGB-capable one.
>
> If RGB is enabled on theDVDplayer SCART, the TV should automatically
> switch to RGB input. You could see if you can switch RGB off in the
> player setup menu and see if there's a difference - find aDVDmenu
> with lots of fine text on it, this should show off the difference
> quite well.

Thanks. It looks like my system is fairly well set up (DVD player into
RGB capable SCART) for the price of the components.