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attilathegorilla

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#30142 29-Jan-2009 23:23
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Hi guys, I just wanna know if the Hauppauge Pvr-150 tv tuner has a genuine s-video input or not. I remember reading somewhere that it`s just a composite input with basically an s-video adapter. Maybe I have no idea what I`m talking about huhh, but I`d like to clear up the fog in my head.




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  #192846 30-Jan-2009 06:26
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attilathegorilla: Hi guys, I just wanna know if the Hauppauge Pvr-150 tv tuner has a genuine s-video input or not. I remember reading somewhere that it`s just a composite input with basically an s-video adapter. Maybe I have no idea what I`m talking about huhh, but I`d like to clear up the fog in my head.


Genuine. SVideo works a different way to composite so you could not just change the plug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-video







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  #192854 30-Jan-2009 07:52
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http://www.av-cables.net/avadapters/av-adapters-svideo.html

So then products like these are not supposed to work?




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  #192869 30-Jan-2009 09:30
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I would say it is a proper s-video as I used to have a Sky decoder connected via the composite video and then changed to s-video and it definitely looks a lot better.




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  #192876 30-Jan-2009 10:17
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attilathegorilla: http://www.av-cables.net/avadapters/av-adapters-svideo.html

So then products like these are not supposed to work?


Those are not just plugs they are converters. However fair point it could do the same thing I guess. Would be a very strange thing to do though.







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  #192880 30-Jan-2009 10:24
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CYaBro: I would say it is a proper s-video as I used to have a Sky decoder connected via the composite video and then changed to s-video and it definitely looks a lot better.


Ok, good to hear, that`s what I was trying to find out.




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  #192881 30-Jan-2009 10:26
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it could do the same thing I guess. Would be a very strange thing to do though.


Yeah I agree, that`s why I was quite surprised when I read that on a forum somewhere. Hopefully the person just didn`t have the right info.




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