Monster cable has come with a composite to svideo converter. Does anyone have any experience or info on this or is it a gimmick. I was tolsd it couldn't be done. Their website is http://www.monstercable.com/ Look under new products. Price $99 us

-- Al McCraw (amccraw@ix.netcom.com), February 15, 2000

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Hey Al, the whole idea is to separate the chrominance and the luminance and filter & amplify the signal on each individual components and voila...you get S-video (separate video signals). Yes it can be done but what is it going to get you that's the real question. I have a semi-adapter cable that have composite to s-video. It does not have the built in filter and amplifier which monster cable has. I do get a clean luminance signal from this cable but the chrominance part of it is not too great....but it does exist and can be done....M-filter from Darim is based on this theory....input composite or s-video....convert it to digital, filter and amplify, convert it back to analog in either composite or s-video and output it....

-- lnguyen (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), February 15, 2000.

I dunno about you, but what it's gonna get me is being able to put my VCR on the switchbox with my DVD and LD players. My TV is stupid, and figures if there's an svideo cable plugged in, that's what to look at even if there's no signal on it. Now, with my TV, that's not too bad, because it's got multiple input sets and I can put the VCR on a different one. But the projector I'm looking at doesn't...

-- Shannon Bell (darklight@home.com), June 10, 2001.