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Wanting to use a TV that does not have an S-video jack.
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Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: richms on January 19, 2009, 09:27:39 am ---Thankfully the scart diesese didnt spread outside of europe much, there are some cases of TVs coming to Aus/NZ with scarts on them, but that has stopped now that everyone is demanding HDMI and component inputs. HDMI is just as bad as far as connectors go but is free of a lot of the problems that scart had.

Older tvs would have a svideo socket beside the yellow RCA for video on at least one of the AV inputs, then that was largly replaced with AV1 being composite and AV3 being component, with AV2 being on the front of the tv and being composite and svideo

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I wish we had SCART connectors here.  They make turning a TV into an arcade monitor pretty easy.  I can see how everything else about it sucks though.  Still, it would have been nice to have RGB back in the old days.
evitagen:
I'm going to try Wal-Mart later as soon as my wife gets home(she actually did not have today off).

Hopefully I will be able to find a 24-25" TV.

Here is a follow-up question, I suppose.  My father has a philips TV that is a 25" that would fit, but like I mentioned in the initial post, it only has a coax input.  Not even composite.  If I have trouble finding an s-video TV, would this at least be do-able with an s-video adapter/converter in the mean time, or would the image quality be too horrible to even attempt?
Hoopz:
I'd try the coax route on your father's tv before laying down money for a new tv.  I use s-video and the games are fine.  Obviously Windows needs some fine tuning but once that's done it's not a big deal.

Coax is going to be a little worse than s-video but for Mame, I don't think it's going to be a deal breaker.  My two cents.  YMMV

Good luck.   :)
Thenasty:
worst comes to worst, slap in  a VHS unit with s-video and out to coax.  :afro:
evitagen:
Not a bad idea.

I just hope the IQ isn't horrendous going the coax route.

Now I need to purchase the videocard.  Too bad they don't have a videocard with just a coax-out jack to save me from having to purchase some kind of converter.
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