OK, so my RCA panel mount jacks came in the mail today and I hooked up component in one of my Super Nintendos (with the S-ENC B).
I wired it straight from the encoder pins to the RCA jacks, no resistors or anything. The picture doesn't look bad, per se, but it definitely needs a little help. The first thing you can notice is that the picture is nice and bright, and all the lines are well defined. But after comparing it to S-Video, you can tell that the colors are a little washed or faded. That's the best why I can describe it with words, but a picture will tell more.
It looks identical (as far as I can tell) on my CRT and LCD, so I took pictures of my LCD screen since you can't really take pics of a CRT. The only thing I forgot, my TV can have different settings between inputs. The brightness was up a little higher on the S-Video input. But being that the component video looks brighter anyway, it didn't really matter. It didn't effect the way the colors compare. The last few pics were taken with some glare on the screen, but it doesn't really effect the comparison.
For each pair of pics, the first one is S-Video and the second one is component.
This last one is interesting...
S-Video:
Component:
Remember, I said the brightness was a little
higher on the S-Video input, but yet you can see background detail in the component shot that was otherwise black and not visible in the S-Video shot.
So like I said, overall the colors look a little faded and the picture is definitely brighter than anything else. But look at how white the whites are. And look at the detail of any text, it's so sharp. I think it looks good, but it obviously needs help. Next I will try adding resistors as others have suggested. But as far as I can tell, others have described a much worse picture before resistors that what I'm seeing.
@ Drakon: How did yours compare to mine? About the same, or worse? I'm wondering if the 6594 outputs a slightly different component signal than the 6592. 133Mhz said there was "very little color" and "almost monochrome." I would not describe my results like that. Perhaps the 6594 had some improvements, or it might be the difference between every ones TVs (though mine looks identical on my CRT and LCD).
133Mhz said putting a 75Ohm resistor in series on each line gave him a great picture, but putting a 1K to ground on each line made the picture perfect. His initial results with no resistors sounded worse than mine though, so maybe I'll try a 75Ohm resistor first.
edit: The pictures really aren't as good as the actual picture on my TV, of course. But after looking at the pics I just posted, it's easy to view differences when they're side by side then when I'm switching back and forth between inputs. I'm having a thought. Look at just how much brighter it is than S-Video. Maybe that's why the colors as so washed out. And I don't think turning the brightness down on the TV would help (though I haven't tried). I'm thinking the resistors will help a great deal, maybe even make it perfect. But I'm too lazy to try right now.
Speaking about that... Last time I ordered RCA panel mount jacks was from DigiKey. They're fine. But the blue and green ones on DigiKey are now non-stock, and they were out of one color, so I ended up ordering them from Mouser instead. The ones from Mouser are incredible compared to the ones from DigiKey. The only downside is that they require a slightly larger mounting space. But overall, they seem better built. They come with the ground tab, two nuts, and two non conductive washers that match the color of the jack. Also, the grounding tab is already bent.
A comparison picture:
They were like 30 cents more each compared to the ones from DigiKey. Well worth the price, I think.
