s-video to YPbPr component circuit

How difficult/costly would obtaining a simple one be? Or is this not practical?

See... Curiously my standard def CRT offers component, yet no s-video. I figured the decision was limited to HD sets.
It'd be useful for things like Atari 2600 who can't realistically get modded to true component. Gamecube also with its component cable prices. :wink-new:

 

All the ones I could find are well north of $100 USD. Best bet. Ditch the TV set for one with s video input. My 20" Toshiba CRT from 2001 offers composite, s video, and component input along with the craptastic RF coaxial. Best part of it: found it by a collage dorm dumpster for free. Only cost me energy to haul it 300 foot to my apartment. Still working 4 years later and is still my only set.

 

it would be simpler to get a RGB scaler to convert RGB to RGB-VGA and use modern HD tvs RGB mods for most consoles are rather easy
and you dont have to deal with the honking scart cable

 

That's true for consoles with RGB like the Megadrive. Problem here is that the Atari 2600 doesn't have RGB. Best video mod I've seen for it is S video.

 

you gotta ask yourself the question with the quality of games on the 26 52 and 78 would any bump in picture quality help anything
im gonna go with waste of time for 1000 alex

 

Agreed. Leave it at composite.

 

There are still good reason to go with composite or S-Video on older consoles. Some TV no longer supports older NTSC standard, only ATSC standard and the RF converter was still over $40 for a meh quality or get composite/S-Video and get cleaner picture.

 

A S-video to component demodulator won't be easy to find, they're hard to make and since they're redundant to the ultra common TV tuner there isn't a demand for them. Your best bet is a professional video scaler with component output.

??? Lay off the crack.

 

Well I don't think scaling will do an SD CRT any good. Such TVs don't accept even 480p.

 

They don't necessarily HAVE to scale, it's likely you can set them to output 480i. The fact is that they have the best chance at doing what you asked for, I didn't say it'd be a smart choice. The more reasonable solutions are probably to just find another TV, live with composite, or adapt S-video to composite if you must.

 

True. Mainly impacts just ancient consoles I don't own. Suppose it's time I looked into repair or replacement of my Coleco Gemini, heh.