Does S-video output improve the picture quality?
Usually yes. An S-Video cable is a cable that can send the luminance and chrominance as separate signals from an LD player to a TV set. Because the video signal on LDs is composite video, there is in principle no sense in using an S-Video cable to connect your LD player to your TV set. However, if the LD player does some clever tricks to the video signal before transmitting it, like noise reduction, it has to separate the luminance and chrominance information anyway, and it is saner to keep them that way all the way to the TV set. Also, if the comb filter of an LD player having an S-Video connector is better than the one in your TV set (which is very usual), it is wise to use the S-Video cable. So, if you use an S-Video cable between your LD player and TV set, you will lose only if the player does no clever image manipulating and your TV set has a better comb filter than your LD player. The only case of this I know of is the European 16:9 TV set Philips 32PW9781, which has the best 3-d
