I never owned one. But Google image search and I see many have S-video (5pin?) and composite video (yellow phono) + optical for the digital audio track as well as stereo for the audio. I imagine many European players had SCART - butthat only is the s-video or yellow phono (depending on how wired).deadman wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:12 amNight457 wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:03 amI never owned one because I had no money when they were the big thing! But now I was wondering if laserdisc players even HAD S-video connection like I know some VHS players did. Apparently some did, but using it might not have been ideal. From https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/400 ... e-capture# --Composite video (yellow plug) probably won't have the best possible quality and my video card had terrible quality anyway. I've digitized VHS with an external device that plugs to S-Video and gives lossless digital video stream via Firewire (this can be encoded with Handbrake etc.)
But I don't have an LD player either...
I've never actually used a laserdisc player or even seen one up close. Did any of them have component video or VGA outputs?
I've used video capture cards that have both s-video and composite. S-video is a bit better quality as it seperates the image more to prevent colour bleeding. It won't be as good as component out I believe. You're unlikely to see any with HDMI out as they were popular before we went above PAL / NTSC and had only 625 / 525 lines.
