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How to connect pc to TV without SVideo connection

fozzybear

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I'm currently without a monitor and need to connect a new PC to an old 21" CRT. The CRT doesn't have a S-Video connection but my graphics card has a TV-Out connection.

The TV only has the old yellow, white and red connections. Is there a converter i can get that will allow me to connect from my pc's gfx card to my TV?
 
I'm currently without a monitor and need to connect a new PC to an old 21" CRT. The CRT doesn't have a S-Video connection but my graphics card has a TV-Out connection.

The TV only has the old yellow, white and red connections. Is there a converter i can get that will allow me to connect from my pc's gfx card to my TV?
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So your pc has a tv-out, and your tv has the old yellow (video in)??? Simply connect the tv-out of the pc to the yellow video in on the tv...!!!

You dont need anything other than a phono cable...

Do you mean your gfx card only has the s-vdeio for tv-out...??? If so, you will need an s-video to compostie cable.. this splits an s-vdeo connection to the three you need: red, white and yellow connectors, to match your tv...

Yellow is video, and red/white are your audio channels...

Or, this, which will just isolate the video signal from s-video...

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/AD009.html
 
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DrMekon said:
So your pc has a tv-out, and your tv has the old yellow (video in)??? Simply connect the tv-out of the pc to the yellow video in on the tv...!!!

You dont need anything other than a phono cable...
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The card has S-Video out on it but there are no connectors that will fit into any of the connections on my TV.

So i just need a phono-phono lead and then i need to connect it from the yellow connector from the svideo lead to the yellow connector on the TV? Thats it? :confused:

As you can probably tell, i get easily confused when it comes to cabling and stuff! :p
 
Just noticed your edit.

I'm with you now. So it's one of these i need.

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And i only need to connect the one cable into the yellow?
 
DrMekon, cheers for your patience and help. I ended up getting one of the scart converters with the svideo, yellow, green and red on it for £1. However, the picture on the TV was in black and white. That's what you get for getting stuff from a pound shop! :)

Luckily last night, a friend managed to get hold of an Iiyama 513 CRT for me that his work didn't need. I'm almost tempted not to bother even getting a TFT now. :)

Thanks again.
 
fozzybear said:
DrMekon, cheers for your patience and help. I ended up getting one of the scart converters with the svideo, yellow, green and red on it for £1. However, the picture on the TV was in black and white. That's what you get for getting stuff from a pound shop! :)
Luckily last night, a friend managed to get hold of an Iiyama 513 CRT for me that his work didn't need. I'm almost tempted not to bother even getting a TFT now. :)
Thanks again.
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dont worry buddy, the picture is black and white because you have the setting for the tv format wrong on your video card:)
just change it to "pal-uk" and you should have full colour, i think the default setting would be ntsc i think?
 
mcfly666 said:
dont worry buddy, the picture is black and white because you have the setting for the tv format wrong on your video card:)
just change it to "pal-uk" and you should have full colour, i think the default setting would be ntsc i think?
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Ah, ok. Not to worry as i've got hold of the CRT for now. Cheers. )
 
mcfly666 said:
dont worry buddy, the picture is black and white because you have the setting for the tv format wrong on your video card:)
just change it to "pal-uk" and you should have full colour, i think the default setting would be ntsc i think?
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S-video to composite will be b/w. The Y/C channels need combining (simple adapter has a small capacitor inside). Although the card may be able to select composite or s-video for the output.

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