VCR as tuner - which cable to use?

[Chyron]

In some faq i read that in mentioned case composite cable will be better choice over not only rf, but s-video. Is that true?

[Mirror_Image]

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scdawson/video/

[Chyron]

Well, kinda not that i asked - as signal was already RF - air translation. So it's composite already. Can somebody clarify this ?

[kayfam]

If you have an S-Video connection use that. It will always give you better results than composite unless of course you have a card that supports component video, but I've yet to see one on the consumer level.

[snowmoon]

As an aside...

S-video is the best ASSUMING the device that sends the signal has the better color comb filter. If you had a poor composite to s-video device ( probably what's in the VCR ) it will make it impossible to recover the lost color information that could be recoverd by a 3d comb filter. A DVD has superior color information so s-video would be appropriate.

If you are just going into a cheap capture card then don't worry too much composite is all the VCR and RF were capable of anyways. I high doubt that the capture card has a 3d comb filter.