What makes up your Home entertainment System?

Don't be.

LD is an analog format that records in a version of a composite signal onto the disc. The S-Video (Y/C is the technical term) output of a Laserdisc player is created by a comb filter circuit to separate the luminance and chroma signals in order to feed them out the connector. The problem is that most of the unit's had poor comb filters, especially in comparison to what is currently available thanks to digital comb filtering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc

Wiki actually got it right with this issue. My LV-510 has Y/C S-Vid output...and I'm not using it. I tried a comparison between the Y/C outputs and composite being fed into my Sony HDTV. The composite bet the pants off the Y/C (depressingly, as I had just bought a S-Vid cable for the Marantz to hook it up, but was not happy with the results). I ended up buying a good quality composite cable and removing the S-Vid cable and to this day I use composite as video out from the LD to the monitor. The results spoke for themselves.

Whatever happened to the smurfs?

Cmonex, I can download at 600kb/sec with http, it's just that SBC is messing with me again.

Oh, I forgot to mention the Lifeview TV Box that I use, it allows me to watch tv on my pc's monitor. A video capture card would be nicer, but at least with this I don't have to hear the fans. (Imagine what watching a dvd on my pc would be like if it wasn't a jet engine...)

My home entertianment system comprises of this screen, this keyboard, this forum and you lot.
That's enough entertainment for one man!

Aside from that I think there is a TV somewhere, it's stuck on BBC News 24 if I remember correctly.

You forgot to mention the tv capture card!

Nice on the cheesyness, we must all feel warm and fuzzy inside. Or just plain offended.

Cheesy? Me? Never!

I have my popcorn to hand as I speak

Yes I have the TV Card, and I have a small TV (stuck on BBC News) behind me also. Everything comes through the computer and the surround sound speakers attached digitally there to it.

Interesting, Snake, fortunately I do have nice composite cables for my LD player... The first time I played an LD, I was very much surprised by the quality...

What size monitor do you have?

I do have to admit that on my 42" projection DVD does look better, especially my favorite movie of all (OK, OK, I'll spill - the movie is Star Trek:The Motion Picture). The "Enterprise in Spacedock" scene on DVD brings tears to your eyes, it's so beautiful. The LD doesn't have the same D-Min and space isn't as dark, as "black" - the S/N ratio is higher no matter what I do. Ah well.

But the LD of the movie has a completely different edit than the DVD, which has yet a third edit on the VHS. Ahhhhh!! Why can't they stop fooling about with the edit on this thing! So you've got to have all three, otherwise you've got nothing, do you?

I just finished, a few minutes ago, watching all the new Who's as I did a second burn of them for storage and needed to test them. I gave my first set of discs away for others, who asked, to enjoy (college kids). Now that I've mentioned "ST:TMP" that will have to be the very next thing I play.

It's a different thread but Ep. 13 of the new Dr. Who simply takes my breath away, every time I watch it - and I've watched it 5 times already. What a performance! This episode has to be one of the very best sci-fi episodes made in the last few years. It's absolutely stunning. And I get a choice of which widescreen to view it on.

I like that picture too, even though the critics weren't very impressed. (Course, the fact that it reminds me of a whirlwind romance that I once had does help my attitude about the movie.)

My screen of PS's?

If me. 21" Trinitron (needed for graphics work, I find LCD doesn't quite give the same results) and some smaller LCD's on the periphery. The little TV is a 14" Trinitron.

My LCD does!

17"

Regretfully, LCD just doesn't. They compress the grey scale, especially at the dark end.

Your LCD is 24-bit PS. At the end of the day that's a stop error.

I must admit - that comment has completely gone over my head.

Can you explain?

Basically I don't find the colour depth support on LCD's to be as capable as they are on CRT's. There is too much varience between the 24-bit colour output on the LCD and CRT when compared to side to side. The results on the CRT are more realistic.