On 30 Oct 2000 06:12:05 GMT, "John P. Beale" wrote:

>Ted Inoue wrote:
>: I was wondering if anybody has been able to modify a Sony TRV900 and extract
>: a
>: real RGB signal from it's wonderful 3-chips. While the firewire downloaded
>
>For that amount of work, it's cheaper to buy a standalone camera with RGB
>output, unless your time is worth nothing (and if you know how to do that,
>it isn't!). But for what it's worth, you do get slightly improved
>resolution by looking at the live s-video signal output (which has not yet
>gone through the DV compression process), as opposed to the firewire
>signal. I don't think trying to extract the direct RGB signal from the CCD
>amplifier would give you much more than the s-video output used live, gives
>you already.

???????????
I have never seen this - and I assumed the "direct" "S" output
has been "double-processed" (and was an analogue conversion
of the camera-digitized signal...). Otherwise, there would
need to be two signal paths within the
camcorder: one from the CCD chips to "S" out, and one from
the digital decoder to "S" out (which seems unlikely in a
consumer camcorder...). One of the interesting features for
me of digital camcorders is that there has been NO visible
difference between the "straight" "S" output of the camcorder,
and the output from tape passed through the "S"
output (barring dropouts...), unlike with analogue
camcorders (what you see with the direct connection is what
you see on tape...). Let me know if this is not correct...