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Title: av on older tv
Post by: danny_galaga on July 04, 2005, 08:35:00 am: ok, i have a vage plan to use an older style tv with a cheap laptop. theres so many terms being bandied about nowadays i have know idea what they are. theres scart, s-video etc. all i know is this tv has the ol yellow and white rca plugs. whats the cheapest way to connect a pc to this kind of tv? ive seen this on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=180&item=5213828411&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V

and it looks to be just the ticket, but this scart thing has me puzzled. thats not on your normal pc, surely?
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: danny_galaga on July 04, 2005, 09:28:09 pm: i should add that i wont necessarily be using a lap top, whatever it takes to use the TV. but that i would like to use DOS also the plugs on the TV i realised are called RCA plugs and i've tested it with my Namco 5 in 1 joystick, which works perfectly on it. so i guess something like this will work?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5213653566&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

im guessing it will need software though which might be a problem with DOS? what to do, what to do...

edit: ok, had a look in the faq and i guess i breezed through it too quickly

"Using a televison:
I Used an old ATI 4mb PCI rage 128 card with s-video and RCA out. I plugged in the s-video cable to the tv and configured ATI's settings to recognize the second display. Then on the next bootup it automatically looked and found the tv and used it is a display device (from bios all the way to windows)--very very easy! Between the RCA and S-video, the S-video offered a superior display with better colors and a more solid picture. Windows and mamewah (my frontend) were run at 640x480 and it looked pretty good (arcade monitor still preferred here though )"

so i think the probs solved for a pc at least. but what about a lap top? this machine is gonna be pretty compact so the lap top would be better...
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 05, 2005, 05:00:15 am: what you could use as opposed to a laptop in a pc, but not in a case. get a motherboard, CPU, RAM, HDD, video card, and power supply. build them into whatever you plan on building the monitor around.
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: danny_galaga on July 06, 2005, 12:35:27 am: yeah, thats what i did for my first cab, but this one might be a bit squeazy for a full sized mobo. but i think im getting closer to figuring out what to do
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 06, 2005, 01:49:42 am: See if you can find a microATX mobo that has a built in TV-out. They are hard to come by.
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: richms on July 06, 2005, 02:44:46 am: Look for the I915GA-HFS or the i915Mm-HFS from aopen - cant seem to find locally yet, but they will be what I use when I get a bit more $$
Title: Re: av on older tv
Post by: danny_galaga on July 07, 2005, 09:54:20 pm: Quote from: USSEnterprise on July 06, 2005, 01:49:42 am
See if you can find a microATX mobo that has a built in TV-out. They are hard to come by.

will start looking! ive since learnt that its a simple matter to use an adaptor to convert s-video to rca so hopefullt that opens the options a little...