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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: OtisCampbell on January 04, 2009, 01:40:56 pm
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My pc has S-Video out, my TV only has CO-AX input.
I already tried SVid --> Modulator --> Co-Ax cable --> TV.
The picture showed on TV, but in black & white.
Is there a way to do this with an older TV with only CoAx input?
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The modulator needs a composite signal. Doesn't the PC output that too (yellow plug)?
Black and white means that the chroma part is not mixed into the signal yet. With S-Video black and white and chroma are on different pins.
Doesn't it have scart too? Only coax means the TV is REALLY old.
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The Vid card has VGA and S-Video.
TV is 7 years old, a Magnavox.
The Video card has 7 pin S-video. The modulator has 5 pin S-vid input.
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The 7-pin connector is probably not s-video. It is nVidia's solution to "HDTV" output and has composite, s-video, and component options on it. You will need a breakout cable to use it. Obtain the appropriate cable (should have come with the card), and set the TV out options to composite or s-video as you prefer. The breakout will have your standard yellow RCA composite jack and 4-pin mini-DIN s-video jack which you can then hook up to a modulator to feed a TV with only an RF tuner input.
If it is one of the (sadly rare) styles that will accept a 4-pin (not 5) s-video cables directly, you can use the appropriate adapter to get composite. Ideally, set your video card to output composite instead of s-video. This will usually turn on a filter that results in slightly higher quality video.