Zez Retro | S-Video history, explanation and breakdown - Cathode Ray Podcast #22 @ZezRetro | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
The Cathode Ray Podcast is a series with CRT shaman Steve from Retro Tech and Louis Zezeran from Zez Retro. Together they talk about CRTs, TVs and other retro gaming topics.

In this episode we take a deep dive into the new MiSTer S-Video cores from Mike Simone. We discuss how the cores work, what cables you would need and give an explanation for how S-Video and composite video works.

00:00 Start
02:00 The back story behind the new MiSTer S-Video cores
11:00 Louis' poor explanation of dot crawl
15:30 The history of broadcast video and where S-Video came from
27:00 How composite video is generated from these cores
44:14 Steve's Polaroid Goodwill pickup
53:40 Louis' Switch Sports get delivered 5 days late
1:00:00 Steve's Costco Adventures
1:12:00 Late in the podcast and the boys get reflective on life

Steve and Louis maintain a blog about their projects "The Cathode Ray Blog"
cathoderayblog.com

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https://anchor.fm/zezretro

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For all your CRT repair needs, check out Steve's channel
youtube.com/c/RetroTechUSA