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| | Hi Fi Writer - Video cabling standards |
 | | When colour was introduced, in order to avoid making those millions of B&W TVs obsolete, it was decided to keep the luminence signal as it was and encode the colour information in a different way so that it would simply be ignored by B&W TVs. |
 | | This is converted to component, then down-converted to S-Video, then further down-converted to composite, then radio frequency modulated for transmission, then, when it gets to your home, RF demodulated, upconverted to S-Video, then further up-converted to component video, then converted to RGB ready to fire the guns at the back of your TV. |
 | | Notice the clear rendition of the colours in the vertical bars on the component shot and the relative muddiness on the S-Video shot. |
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