I recently got an S-video cable for my PAL N64 from consolegoods.co.uk. It looks great on my CRT; much better than composite and way ahead of RF. The trouble is that on every HDTV I've tested it with, I get a weird rainbow effect with the colours.
The video shows what I mean:
Any suggestions? With both the CRT and the HDTV I'm using an S-Video/composite to SCART adapter.
Best Answer
It looks like you need to change your TV from progressive scan to interlaced (or vice versa as applicable).
I've seen flickering like this from this problem before, and here's why it happens:
There are 2 ways to feed data to a TV. Progressive scanning sends it one line at a time, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on. Interlaced scanning sends all the odd lines, then all the even lines, 1st, 3rd, 5th, ..., 2nd, 4th, 6th, and so on.
If you have your TV in the wrong mode it could cause this.