Uber N00b Questions

[BigMatty]

Hey guys, i've got a bunch of really newbie questions...
feel free to just answer the ones you know

I have two cables for video in..
One is like a long tube, its yellow
The other has a rounded edge which contains 4 small pins and a black square to one side.

What are these two cables called?

Which one is the best to use to capture video? Or do they produce the same quality?

If I was to capture in high resolution from both a small televion and a large television, will the large television have better quality than the small television?

Would using video out on a large television produce worse qualities than using video out on a small television?

Thanks!!

[vitualis]

It sounds like that the yellow one is a composite cable and the other is an S-Video cable.

As for which is better, I would think S-Video if both your input and output devices support it. However, I suggest that you search the forum. There was a fairly recent in depth discussion about which one was better under what circumstances that was beyond my level of understanding.

Regards.

[Craig Tucker]

If I was to capture in high resolution from both a small televion and a large television, will the large television have better quality than the small television?

No, you are capturing the broadcast signal, not what is displayed on the TV screen.

Would using video out on a large television produce worse qualities than using video out on a small television?

Thanks!!

Depends on the quality of the source, if you have a video file with lots of blockiness, if you watch this on a smaller screen the blocks will not be as noticable as if you watched it on a larger screen. But then everything is less noticable the smaller the screen you use to display. This does not mean the quality is better. The source quality is the same, you just cant see everything on a smaller screen.

[BigMatty]

Thanks very much to both of you

I'll try search for that discussion now I would have searched before but I didnt know what words to use since I didnt know what the cables were called!

Thanks again