Video modding service...

[chrisbid]

there was only one person i could find that performed component mods on colecovisions (viking video games), and he has stopped doing them. all the other modding services are composite or s-video.

 

 

i would also love to find somebody that can do an RGB mod to a turbo duo

[doyman]

Not to throw a monkey wrench into it all but isn't there talk of scrapping HDMI and using cat5 cables?

[the-topdog]

I'd like to see some modding service / kit or otherwise to HDMI as composite and s-video will become less common.

 

How about your buddy work on the HDMI mod for the Atari consoles maybe, ie: 2600, 5200 and 7800 for starters?

It would probably be better to just stick with S-Video from the console, and to use an external Composite/S-Video-to-HDMI converter. Building a mod kit for an Atari that can output directly to HDMI would probably amount to building the equivalent of an external converter inside the console, which would be very expensive and unusable for anything else; with an external unit, you can at least use it with other consoles.

Really? I had no idea how complicated it would be. So which would give you the shapest picture quality? s-video or composite if you were looking at only 1 mod.

 

S-video would give the better picture of the two.

[psquare75]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U3Y8Q8?ie=UTF8&tag=atariage&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001U3Y8Q8

 

All this talk of S-video, my TV doesn't even have one.

[Pioneer4x4]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U3Y8Q8?ie=UTF8&tag=atariage&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001U3Y8Q8

 

All this talk of S-video, my TV doesn't even have one.

Honestly, every time I tried s-video I really do not see a difference from composite. Even though it has 4 connectors, it is just composite split between color and brightness right? The result is the same picture.

[horseboy]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U3Y8Q8?ie=UTF8&tag=atariage&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001U3Y8Q8

 

All this talk of S-video, my TV doesn't even have one.

Honestly, every time I tried s-video I really do not see a difference from composite. Even though it has 4 connectors, it is just composite split between color and brightness right? The result is the same picture.

 

The result is not the same picture. S-Video is superior.

 

-edit- In terms of a 2600 mod it may be very difficult to tell the difference, but S-Video overall is a better picture.

Edited November 1, 2010 by horseboy

[flammingcowz]

Before I had a HD chord for my original xbox, I had a cable with both composite and s-video on the end. S-video was 100x better than composite

 

but on a standard def tv, there was no difference

[jaybird3rd]

The result is not the same picture. S-Video is superior.

 

-edit- In terms of a 2600 mod it may be very difficult to tell the difference, but S-Video overall is a better picture.

S-Video is definitely an improvement over composite. The 2600 is a fairly low-resolution console, so the difference between the two might not be so visible (especially on an LCD TV, which is stretching the video so much anyway), but it's definitely apparent on machines that provided higher resolution graphics, like the Atari 400/800 computers and the 7800.

 

S-Video is really the best that the 2600 hardware can do completely on its own. To get anything more modern than that would require extra hardware, and I still maintain that an external converter would be the ideal solution for those situations. I don't know why so many newer televisions don't provide S-Video inputs, but if nothing else, it's still useful to have S-Video outputs from the console to use with the converters.

[Pioneer4x4]

What I meant by the same picture is that the generated image is the same for s-video and composite. Component video can do higher resolution and progressive...

 

And I have used s-video and composite for many items, DVD, video capture, and other devices and I honestly cannot see a difference in the image.

[maiki]

Using widescreen Samsung LCD to play 2600 games? You could then be using an emulator playing on your notebook and the picture "degradation" would be the same...

 

Since 2600 is designed to be played in that beaming phosphor triads world of magic:

 

http://www.thereeltodd.com/2008/10/yars-revenge-on-a-real-atari-2.html

Edited November 2, 2010 by maiki

[psquare75]

*shrug* I'm quite happy with it. If I could have afforded larger at the time, I would have. We can go round and round with these debates. Only games that don't work are gun games... but I never played those, ever, so..