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lettuce:
Hi, this will probbaly be more for the UK members on here, but i have a spare 28" toshiba TV kicking about, and have decided to use it for my next mame project, as its cheaper than a monitor of the same size, and have been told it will produce the same picture quality as a monitor when using a scart cable. So the question is where can i get a made up cable that has all the relative Vsync and Hsync wires sorted??

Fozzy The Bear:
You can't is the simple answer...... It's not a VGA monitor. You can't connect a VGA signal directly to a TV set the scan frequencies are wrong. VGA signal frequency is twice as high as TV frequency.

What you need is a either a graphics card that outputs composite video  (most of the ATI cards have a TV out, and some of the Nvidia cards do as well)  Then you conect a composite to SCART lead and you have your output, OR you need to buy an Arcade VGA card which also outputs the correct frequency and is in fact based on an ATI card anyway.

Whatever you do! DONT try to connect VGA directly to a TV set!  You'll fry the TV and probably the graphics card feeding it.

You can get a composite to scart lead from most HiFi or TV shops.... But remember that scart is a one direction cable.... that is that the scart end of the cable must be a signal out scart.  When you buy it make sure you get one that has signal in at the composite end and signal out at the scart end.

One other quick note if you still want a better image than that, is that the current batch of ATI cards also have a "component video" out adapter available for them.   You can have that connected to a scart lead. I don't have the exact details of that at the moment, but if you intend to do it that way, then you will need to make sure that your TV takes RGB in with separate sync. Most older sets don't.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Gh0sty:
hi lettuce,

i know what you mean by VGA 2 Scart, we in europe are luck to have such
Scart, it is a good & cheap way to get close Arcade Feeling,
check this links out:
Btw. i dont think you can buy such a cable, but its not to much work to build your own,
check this this, this, or  this link out.

R
Gh0sty

Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: Gh0sty on March 03, 2006, 08:28:10 pm ---hi lettuce,
i know what you mean by VGA 2 Scart, we in europe are luck to have such
Scart, it is a good & cheap way to get close Arcade Feeling,
check this links out:
Btw. i dont think you can buy such a cable, but its not to much work to build your own,
check this this, this, or  this link out.
R
Gh0sty

--- End quote ---

Ghosty..... Be extremely careful about passing on those links...... Some of the information there is extremely dangerous (and some of it is actually plain wrong). The reason you can't buy such a cable is because you're not supposed to connect those two things together that way.

Potential for serious electric shock there. TV sets have enough voltage and ampage stored to kill, even when they are unplugged. I work with arcade monitors every day, and have only once made a stupid mistake and been given a serious belt by one. Trust me IT HURTS! You don't do it again after that happens. Either because it really hurt or because you're dead.

Lettuce please take note of this! if you are at all unsure of what you are doing, don't even think about trying to use the infomation at the above links. Please be careful. The best and safest method, I have already outlined for you in my first post.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)   

Gh0sty:
Fozzy, calm down, i just posted some link where people succesfully
build vga 2 scart cables, nothing more or less. IT IS possible with the
right know-how. Lettuce asked for a ready-to-go cable and such thing
dont exist, but IT IS possible like in the links i posted ( i still search an
old link with exact documentary on vga 2 scart).

And im sure Lettuce is still living and ok. ;) 

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