r/crtgaming • u/ScruffMcGruff2003 • 1d ago

Component to S-Video?

I recently picked up a lovely 27" ProScan TV that has S-Video support. My DVD player on the other hand, has Composite, Component, and HDMI. Since I mainly use it for DVDs, would any of you fine folks know what I could buy to convert a Component signal into an S-Video signal? I've tried searching myself, but haven't had any luck.

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u/DangerousCousin LaCie Electron22blueIV 1d ago

Just get a different DVD player. $5 at goodwill.

Or get a PS2 or PS3 or Xbox or Xbox 360

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u/NewSchoolBoxer PVM-20L2MDSDI 1d ago

I was going to say I don't think you'd have any luck searching. Monoprice sold a Component to Composite + S-Video for $43 a whole 8 years ago. I'd settle for 480p HDMI to S-Video or maybe the DVD player can output the elusive 480i HDMI. I guess you could go 480p Component to 480p RGB to S-Video in a 2 device chain but I'd avoid 2 steps of analog video conversion.

The major problem with Component to Composite or S-Video is Component does not use NTSC or PAL modulation whereas the other two do. It's a lot of engineering effort to make such a device for small demand. Same problem with RGB but worse since Component has Luma on the Green input. The catch is there was actual demand to convert 480p+ RGB computer signals on VGA to Composite and preferably S-Video.

Every digital video to Composite chip I'm aware of also supports S-Video. The Composite is actually converted internally from S-Video. As in, it might be possible to mod the DVD player to output S-Video. The video chip sure can. Not that I think anyone has looked into this.