Panzy said:
You are still wrong.
You are confusing line resolution with pixel resolution.
When connected to a flat screen via S-Video, a flat screen that
composes the image in pixels can only accept 800x600 via S-video.
And that is the pixel resolution for S-video output.
Sorry to have to rub it in, but the "720x576 for PAL" is via the superior
SCART/PERITEL connection - not the inferior S-Video analog connection.
No it is you who are wrong. I don't know which comic you read this rubbish,
but it is just plain wrong. I have configured enough graphic systems to
match both standard video and oddball aircraft video displays to know what I
am talking about.
The video characteristics for CVBS (as carried by SCART/PERITEL) and S-Video
are precisely the same and are specified in Report 308-2 of the XIIth
Pleniary Assembly of the CCIR. Tables II and III column G is what you seek.
The luminance line of S-Video is *exactly* the same as a standard VBS
(monochrome to you) video signal having 576 active lines and a bandwidth
that relates to a maximum horizontal resolution of approximately 360 line
pairs [1] (usually described as a standard 625 line 50 field video signal).
The sole difference between CVBS and S-Video is that the colour information
is superimposed on the former and carried on a separate line on the latter.
Further PAL over CVBS (or SCART) is inferior, not superior, to S-Video as
there is cross talk between the chrominance and luminance. The SCART
specification provides for the carriage of S-Video by simply allocating the
colour to a separate line. SCART also provides for the carriage of video
using RGB, but that is not a PAL signal as the colour is not encoded. RGB
is superior to both CVBS and S-Video, the video characteristics are still
otherwise identical to the other two systems apart from the video bandwidth
which is much greater (hence the greater horizontal resolution).
A standard 625 line 50 field video signal regardless of whether it is CVBS,
S-Video, RGB or YCbCr owes nothing whatsoever to a computer 800x600 graphic
output (this latter having been specified around 2 decades later).
[1] This is broadly equivalent in resolution to a 720x576 pixel digital
signal, but the two can't be compared exactly as they are not the same
thing.