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- From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
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- Subject: Re: Sega video cable, is it worth it?????
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- In article <richard.725579194@dutepp13> Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman) writes:
- > il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh) writes:
- >
- >
- > >My only complaint is that Sega didn't put stereo sound on the connector.
- >
- > Don't blame this on Sega! Blame it on TV designers.
- > The point is that you simply can't get stereo on those coax cables.
-
- Garbage. It's SEGA's fault. For one, there's no reason why they couldn't
- have put both left and right pins on that DIN plug. They then sell two
- cables: one which has seperate left and right plugs and one which merges
- left and right into a single plug for those with mono TVs.
-
- Secondly, I believe that the SNES uses a method to get stereo over a single
- coax cable which is the same as broadcasting companies use. I.e., you
- combine the two signals on the same wire with half of the signal being some
- number of hertz higher. Stereo TV's then know how to decode this into real
- left and right channels and on monos you get proper mono sound. This, of
- course, precludes playing things through a stereo, though, unless your TV
- does seperate audio outs or you happen to find a box that does this decoding.
-
- The fault is entirely with SEGA. It just screams hack to have to stick a
- plug in the headphone slot to get stereo sound out of the box. What's even
- worse is they didn't include the sound channels on the expansion bus. The
- SEGA CD has to use a very unprofessional cable that runs from the headphone
- jack to an input on the back of the SEGA CD to capture the sounds the Genesis
- itself is making. Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy!
-
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