S-Video to Y/C cables - they do exist

[Ami_GFX]

S-Video and Y/C are one and the same. Y/C is the older term.

The luma(light)and chroma(color) signals are on separete wires in s-video/YC while in composite video they are merged. The 1084 has seperate luma and chroma inputs and on rca jacks and you need this cable to adapt the standard 4 pin mini din plug to it's input. Signal wise, they are identical, it is just a cabling difference.

[Ami_GFX]

@ magnetic

Guess I wasn't following that thread closely enough

Still, I suppose the more places this info is posted, the better. It definitely seems like there was a long period in popular electronics culture where Y/C was completely forgotten. I wonder what popular devices are out there these days that warrant mass production of these cables?

Until HD video became the standard, s-video was the best analog video standard short of 15khz RGB. At the pro video level it tended to be called Y/C while consumer equipment labled it s-video or s-vhs.  A few years ago, all my video gear was s-video. These days it's hdmi/dvi and I use the analog s-video outs to feed my Toaster through a Kitchen Sync.