Buster D said:

Arnie.d said:
No, I didn't test the comb filters because of limited time and because the X9 owner had a lot of experience and said the composite out was much better for image quality.

I'm also an X9 owner, and while the results using the composite output might look better at first glance in some circumstances, I don't recommend using it.

The X9, like most other players with both composite & S-Video output, does not have direct composite (also called pure composite) output. This means that instead of the signal path being disc->TBC->output, it's disc->TBC->3DYC->recombined signal-> output. So the composite signal is just the S-Video signal recombined back into composite.

Hey Buster,

According to Kurtis/X9 service manual:

LD-> A/D -> TBC/Frame Memory/DVNR -> D/A -> composite. For the S-Video Output it is LD-> A/D -> TBC/Frame Memory/DVNR -> 3D Y/C/(D/A) -> Y/C output.

So although the X9 composite output isn't "pure" it's also not combined Y/C. For my capture all filters were switched off.