Ian Manning
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(How) would it be possible to get an S-Video signal out of the HDR-Fox T2? Would a rather expensive signal converter be required?
A component video switch like this could be an option
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monoprice-4-Port-Component-Switch-Learning/dp/B001TK9SEE
(sssuming the Slingbox supports the IR codes for the switch)
Yes sorry I should have said - I have ordered an HDMI to Component converter so that I can connect one of the other components to it.I thought you said you are using the component video input? The HDR-FOX has component video.
You're right, I was thinking (incorrectly) of RGB. Regardless, I knew it wouldn't be a full HiDef output. The alternative setting for the SCART output (CVBS) would provide the C and Y (V) signals for S-Video mentioned before.Pretty sure a HDR-FOX-T2 doesn't have component out. HDMI, Scart RGB or Composite and Composite RCA Phono. HD capable component outputs are now very rare due to being able to copy HD content. Even older blu-ray players have the component outputs crippled to SD resolution.
Last pvr I owned with component out was the SD Topfield 5800 which can output YCrPb using the RGB connections in a scart cable.
You're right, I was thinking (incorrectly) of RGB. Regardless, I knew it wouldn't be a full HiDef output. The alternative setting for the SCART output (CVBS) would provide the C and Y (V) signals for S-Video mentioned before.
Thanks. I rather feared that a pricey converter might be required. I think I'll try the Onkyo switching caper to see if it's a workable solution.No it won't at least in so far as picture quality is concerned. Composite (CVBS) has the two components of S-Video (luminance and chrominance) combined, that why you get the patterning on certain textures due to crosstalk between the two as they are seperated. Only keeping the two seperate throughout the recording chain as in a S-VHS recorder will retain the advantage. It's possible to create S-Video from RGB .
eg
https://www.keene.co.uk/keene-rgb-to-s-video-convertor-uk-psu.html
Thanks. I rather feared that a pricey converter might be required. I think I'll try the Onkyo switching caper to see if it's a workable solution.
If you want an impedance mis-matched bodge, yes.S-Video is easy to turn into composite you just connect the luminance and chrominance conductors together.