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Can I mix S-Video and Compostie connectors when hooking up my many video players and recorders on receivers that are a few years old?

April 26, 2017connectors hooking mix PLAYERS receivers recorders S-video video

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Can I mix S-Video and Compostie connectors when hooking up my many video players and recorders on receivers that are a few years old?

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No, you must use ALL S-video or ALL Composite connectors. Thats because “format conversion” (the impressive sounding name we use to describe circuits that convert a composite video signal to an S-video signal and vice versa) were very expensive to implement without degrading signal quality at that time. Thats why we chose not to include them. However many of our current A/V receivers today possess this format conversion feature.