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dennis:

--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 12 May 2008, 14:59 ---It depends.

If all you have is an S-Video out, then you're out of luck.  There are no S-Video to RCA Composite cables, only S-Video to component or S-Video to S-Video.

If you have a Video out (just the yellow one), then you can get a video cable for the yellow jack and then a Y-Audio splitter to go from the Line Out port to the Red and White jacks of the RCA splitter.

The Y-Audio splitter is what I use for my computer, actually.



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S-video to composite dongles were often bundled with directx-7 era video cards since their TV-outs were typically only s-video. It's not difficult to convert s-video to composite (you basically connect pins 1 & 2 to the shield and 3 & 4 to the core) . Composite to s-video is what is difficult and uncommon (though dongles for such do exist. I have a couple somewhere).

I suggest he pick up a cheap AV switchbox for this purpose. The red/white/yellow kind should be pretty cheap (USD20 or less) if you can find one. Most places have moved on to component and digital signals.

Dimmukane:
Well, I didn't buy my own video cards until DX9b.  Didn't realize that was an option.  I still am unsure how much that is still supported though, I'm not sure how long the GPU companies keep older tech supported.

bicostp:
dennis is right, S-Video to Composite is really simple. Tie the grounds together, then connect the two signal cables together, but send the chroma signal through a 470pf capacitor.

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html

However, if you have an S-Video input on your TV anywhere, use it!! S-Video gives you a noticeably cleaner signal than composite does, especially on a signal coming from a PC. (All the fine lines from windows and icons get that nasty dot crawl artifact on composite.) Check your laptop's manual to see what TV-out options it has, and use the best one both the laptop and TV support.

While you're at it, connect your DVD player using the highest connection both it and your TV support. You should notice a big improvement in clarity.

Video connections (in decreasing quality):
Digital (HDMI, DVI, etc)
SCART
Component
S-Video
Composite
Coax (RF)

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