I am looking to purchase a DVD/CD/CDR/CDRW/MP3 player. The only one I have found does not have a Component output. Could someone please help me in this area. Is there a great differance in the two different outputs.

-- Jim Ivison (ivison@jetcable.com), February 03, 2001

Answers

Kinda layman but I'm not good enough to write the white paper:

Component carries the video's color data in three parts, svideo in two, composite in one. Component is a good deal better than s-video but you will not find a "tv" or a "vcr" that would accept this. If you are into HDTV or professional grade equipment like betaSP or AVID postproduction systems then you should be buying a professional grade DVD player and not the swiss army knife model. Does the model you are looking at support a digital output along with the the analog svideo and composite? That seems a little promising for compatability with the future generations of digital televisions. My two cents.

-- stein (sk8boar@altavista.com), February 03, 2001.

Shoot, I was gonna recommend the Genica Kahlua. I bought one in December for $165 at computergeeks.com that has all that you are looking for plus some great karaoke features (2mic inputs, mic volume and echo knobs) and it has composite, svideo and component output.

-- stein (sk8boar@altavista.com), February 04, 2001.

My Pioneer DVD DV535K has component video output and my Toshiba projection TV also has the video component inputs.

-- limhh (limhh@sarawaknet.gov.my), February 04, 2001.

The TV I have is a Toshiba that has the component inputs or I think they call it color stream or something like that. The reason I want a player that does all the different kind of formats is because I run on a treadmill for about 1 1/2 hrs three days a week. I just purchased a new computer with all the sound making equipment for these different formats. The old CD player I have doesn't play CDR's or CDRW's. When you run that much it hard not to do something else besides run. So I like to be able to work all the remotes to the sound and video equipment I have while I am running on my treadmill. I would also like to have one that holds more than one CD so I don't have to stop and change the CD when I want listen to something else. And I just fiqure I might as well get a player that does DVD's because I don't have one. I quess I would think at this point that for me S-Video will do just as good as component video.

-- Jim Ivison (ivison@jetcable.com), February 05, 2001.

The CCVS means Color Composite Video Signal, witch carries 4 signals: Image, Burst, Extinction and Sync (4 in a row); SVHS or SVIDEO equals to HI-8 in quality and specifications, is only 2 in a row: Luminance and crominance. If you're using a tv set with svideo input, you can achieve top quality with a player that have svideo output.

-- Joćo Anselmo Silva Serra (jass@oninet.pt), February 07, 2001.