Small LCD monitors with SVideo in?

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2009 at 15:47

Anyone know of any cheapish monitors with S-video in? Ideally about 17" or smaller and bonus points if they are either rackmountable or have vesa mounts. Oh and needs svideo loop through.

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2009 at 10:14

Any suggestions?

DragonQ · 19 Jun 2009 at 11:05

Why do you need S-Video in? Before two days ago I'd never even used S-Video.

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2009 at 11:17

DragonQ said:
Why do you need S-Video in? Before two days ago I'd never even used S-Video.

Because the monitors are acting as inline monitors for 5 projectors. I have 6 DVI lines coming out of the computer, 5 of them then get converted to Y/C(S-video) and go into the monitors. The line then comes back out of the monitor and on to the projectors. I want to use Y/C cables for most of it as it's cheaper and allows me to easily hook it up to the vision mixer etc.

This is bascially what i'm planning;

Its for a theatre audio visual control system btw.

another option might be a monitor with a DVI in, but a Y/C loop through, although this might be even harder to find, and then this wouldn't work with the vision mixer as that doesn't have DVI in.

El_Watcher · 19 Jun 2009 at 11:54

Although I wouldn't guarantee cheap, these would work for you.

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:01

El_Watcher said:
Although I wouldn't guarantee cheap, these would work for you.

Thanks for the uggestion, but it doesn't seem to have loop through. I think I might have found a solution; Cheap CCTV monitors with BNC in and Loop through, then go SVideo>BNC-BNC>Svideo. Not ideal, but would do the trick.

El_Watcher · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:02

Messiah Khan said:
Thanks for the uggestion, but it doesn't seem to have loop through. I think I might have found a solution; Cheap CCTV monitors with BNC in and Loop through, then go SVideo>BNC-BNC>Svideo. Not ideal, but would do the trick.

Why loop through and not just splitter?

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:06

El_Watcher said:
Why loop through and not just splitter?

Well that was my origional plan, but someone mention using loop through to neaten the whole setup. Would definately make it neater, but quite possibly a lot more expensive as well.

Edit; Aargh, why can't people stick to 1 type of standard and connector!

DragonQ · 19 Jun 2009 at 13:41

Surely it would be better to keep the signal as DVI/HDMI for as long as possible? S-Video can only do up to 576i too as far as I know.