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Generic Eric:


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Svideo is a multi conductor cable.  I don't have an svideo cable in front of my, so i don't know how many pins. Svideo cables usually have a yellow jacket on the end informing that it is a video cable.


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Are you sure man? Not a single one of my S-video cables has a yellow jacket on the end. Every one of them is just black (and we're talking several dozen cables here)

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--- Quote from: PaulG on July 13, 2004, 07:46:29 am ---I've never seen a yellow jacket either.  I've never seen a composite cable that didn't have a yellow jacket, but never an s-video.

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Crap.  I don't know if I am sure.  Maybe its just console svideo cables that have the yellow jacket at the end.  By that I mean on the connector, not the cable.  I thought that the yellow was the standard (with the exception of RGB cables) for video.  Aren't the jacks on the new TVs even yellow?

pointdablame:

almost all svideo cables I have seen have had a black jacket.  The yellow jacket is usually reserved (at least in my experience) for the regular RCA video connection grouped with the red and white stereo cables.

To 3eyed... you're gonna have to see if you have a jack like hoagie_one posted.  If not... you're kinda screwed.  I believe it's possible (?) to hook up an RCA TV to a computer through an adapter but the picture quality would be terrible because RCA is natively a lesser picture quality.  You could in theory hook up your TV with component inputs as well, but if you aren't sure that your TV has SVideo, I can pretty much guarantee you that you don't have component.

Do some reading on the different video connections (RCA, SVideo, Component, DVI, etc etc) and then see if you can return your TV if it isn't what you need.  My advice: Do a bit more research before you buy any more parts.

MonitorGuru:

Picture quality levels/connector type/signal composition (worst to best)

Very low quality (analog cable, VCR Channel 3/4 output):
- RF (radio frequency) / Coax / Composite Video + Mono or Stereo Audio in 6 MHz Bandwidths stacked to limit of cable

Better quality (VCR direct to TV output, camcorder, Digital cable/satellite to TV output):
- Color Composite / RCA / Composite Video (Luminance [B+W signal aka brightness] + Chrominance [color signal] combined)

Best quality for $: (SVHS/8mm VCR/camcorder, better Digital cable/satellite to TV output/DVD):
- S-Video / Mini DIN 4 connector / Color Separate (Luminance (Y),  Chrominance (C) on separate wires)

Slightly better quality (depends on signal source/TV quality):
- Component aka ColorStream[Toshiba] / 3 RCA / Color Differential (Luminance (Y), Blue Differential (Y-B), Red Differential (Y-R) on 3 separate wires. Green determined mathematically from 3 signals)

Best quality (computer or arcade monitors, direct SCART connections)
- Pure RGB / Various cables / Separate Red/Green/Blue wires, full bandwidth applied to each wire. Separate sync wires for horizontal/vertical or can be combined on Green wire.

Craig:

Thanks for that Monitor Guru

the3eyedblindman:

Is there any sort of  "S video" jack you can buy separate and hook up to your tv that i could do, and is there any other way i can use this as my monitor, I dont want to have toi take this back.

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