Indeed, ATRAC is a lossy compression format, but it is superior to mp3 and a few others, although there are no doubt people who disagree, people who agree, people who think that only CD quality is acceptable and others who think CD is too crisp and that vinyl is king. You can't win.
Marking "lossy" as a reason for the supposed cost of MDs doesn't address it. It's certainly no worse than high bitrate mp3.
As mentioned by adolf, the RGB hardware in a mid range DVD player isn't exactly a chocolate muffin.
An S-video output will be far crisper in this setup, since although RGB is the better format on paper, the nature of the original signal (the data coming off the DVD) and the way the RGB and s-video signals are made up will give s-video the edge.
A DVD uses component video, made up of luminance, and two colour difference signals, plus sync (sometimes).
To get from component to s-video, you don't need to do anything to the luminance signal, all you have to do is combine the chominance channels and sort out some timing.
To convert to RGB, you have to do some serious work.
In that price range, s-video wins every time, especially when converting from component sources.
To make it into a digital signal... Well, it's been discussed. Only for the hobbiest with a shedload of cash. Doing it with a computer and a decent hardware decoder is the way to do it if you want to go down that road.
As a random piece of information about the Marion 8 crawlers, they have the longest windscreen wipers in the world (47 inches). This is from the Guinness Book of Records, alas I can't link to a book.
The annoying thing about macrovision of course, is that it messes with the sync enough to upset some projectors. So you could spend a fortune on your DVD player, amp, cinema setup, large projector, buy a legal copy of your DVD then watch it all go pear shaped when you hit play.
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Indeed, ATRAC is a lossy compression format, but it is superior to mp3 and a few others, although there are no doubt people who disagree, people who agree, people who think that only CD quality is acceptable and others who think CD is too crisp and that vinyl is king. You can't win.
Marking "lossy" as a reason for the supposed cost of MDs doesn't address it. It's certainly no worse than high bitrate mp3.
As mentioned by adolf, the RGB hardware in a mid range DVD player isn't exactly a chocolate muffin.
An S-video output will be far crisper in this setup, since although RGB is the better format on paper, the nature of the original signal (the data coming off the DVD) and the way the RGB and s-video signals are made up will give s-video the edge.
A DVD uses component video, made up of luminance, and two colour difference signals, plus sync (sometimes).
To get from component to s-video, you don't need to do anything to the luminance signal, all you have to do is combine the chominance channels and sort out some timing.
To convert to RGB, you have to do some serious work.
In that price range, s-video wins every time, especially when converting from component sources.
To make it into a digital signal... Well, it's been discussed. Only for the hobbiest with a shedload of cash. Doing it with a computer and a decent hardware decoder is the way to do it if you want to go down that road.
As a random piece of information about the Marion 8 crawlers, they have the longest windscreen wipers in the world (47 inches). This is from the Guinness Book of Records, alas I can't link to a book.
The annoying thing about macrovision of course, is that it messes with the sync enough to upset some projectors. So you could spend a fortune on your DVD player, amp, cinema setup, large projector, buy a legal copy of your DVD then watch it all go pear shaped when you hit play.
Mildly annoying.