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RE: Re: XBox component HD cable + composite?


  • Subject: RE: Re: XBox component HD cable + composite?
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:41:35 -0000

Ah ok - good thinking! I guess my question was formed in my mind
before I got HD working!

BTW - all this HD works lovely through your Kat5 boxes :)
(plug..plug..plug!)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Keith Doxey
> Sent: 30 November 2006 12:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: XBox component HD cable + composite?
>
> > Thanks Noel - that's what I was thinking too - I might even make
> > a component to composite circuit if I can find a suitable one...
> > (Keith???)
> >
>
> I dont have a curcuit for Component to Composite or S-video although
it is
> possible to convert.
>
> Having said that, it wouldnt work because the resultant composite or
s-
> video
> signal would be at HD frequencies so a normal SD display couldnt
display
> it.
>
> Easiest was to get simultaneous outputs is to use two encoder chips
with
> the
> RGB output of a device.
>
> One encoder chip to convert RGB to Component
>
> One encoder chip to convert RGB to S-video and Composite
>
> The RGB output would also be available as long as you buffered it.
>
> All pretty academic in relation to this thread as they would all be SD
not
> HD. As there is only a single headed graphics chip in the X-box there
is
> no
> way to get HD and SD as the same time without an expensive
> Scaler/Converter
> to downscale the HD image. You also have the problem thet from what I
have
> read in this thread the HD output is NTSC not PAL.
>
>
>
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