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    Default Is there really that big of a difference between S-Video and RGB on SNES?

    I'm an admin on /r/gamecollecting on Reddit and we recently made a group purchase of some Monster S-Video cables for SNES/N64/GCN. I wrote a review HERE if you're interested with screenshots comparing composite and S-Video.

    Whereas a couple of those cables cost me around 15 bucks, the jump to a top-notch RGB setup (XRGB-3, GCN SCART cable, and euro-to-JAP conversion...) would be 40-50x more expensive. I'm a big enough of a nut that I'm actually open to considering the possibility, but frankly I don't see how the video quality can get much better than what I'm seeing in the screenshots I posted within the review.

    Anyone care to chime in? :P

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    I don't think so really, there is a noticeable improvement when you go to RGB for the SNES but the consoles s-video and hell, even composite capabilities are superior to the MD/GEN and while there is an increase in clarity with each step up you take its not the "OMG WOW" factor you get from some of the other consoles of the era.

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    Yeah man. There was a fairly "wow" transition from Composite to S-Video, but I don't know how much of a difference RGB would make...

    The bigger issue is that if I upgraded to RGB it'd be because I were streaming my SNES games for a show or reviews etc. With everything I listed about PLUS a DVI or VGA capture (for which the capture cards are like $2000 a piece... crazy...), I'm looking at about $2500 just to get a bump in streamable video quality, vs. now, where I can already capture S-Video with my Dazzle DVC100.

    It's a shame that SCART was never implemented in the US and that it's such a pain to get usable RGB out of NTSC SNESs, even if it is a model 1.

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    Perhaps I'm missing something, but why do you need an XRGB-3?

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    I'd get in some svideo cables for snes. If you do another group purchase let us know

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    I've never seen a noticeable difference on ANYTHING between S-Video and Composite. Perhaps if you stare at a still shot, but not for anything moving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by c0ldb33r View Post
    I'd get in some svideo cables for snes. If you do another group purchase let us know
    I'd totally be on board too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Informationator View Post

    Whereas a couple of those cables cost me around 15 bucks, the jump to a top-notch RGB setup (XRGB-3, GCN SCART cable, and euro-to-JAP conversion...) would be 40-50x more expensive.

    Anyone care to chime in? :P
    15 x 40 = 600...

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    Quote Originally Posted by danny_galaga View Post
    15 x 40 = 600...
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/F-S-NEW-Mico...#ht_3974wt_944

    The baseline price on ebay for an X-RGB3 alone is 534 bucks and just goes up from there so yeah he was actually pretty spot on with that. lol However unless your converting a ton of equipment from one signal type to another or just want teh very very best you can get for you Console-LCD transfers it seems excessive. For the of what he posted (unless he was planing on using it for the other stuff) its easy to get the Console-Scart-Converter-To settup for less then 70 bucks.

    Speaking of which I've been reading about the X-RBG3 and I am really wondering about its basic function. Is it so desired just for its ability to add scanlines to old consoles or am I missing a huge chunk of the picture here?

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