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Wanting to use a TV that does not have an S-video jack.
Hoopz:
Can you hold off buying the video card until you're sure what tv you are going to use? I'm sure you can find one with the right output connector for the tv you want to use.
evitagen:
Yeah, I can wait for sure. But I was honestly joking about the videocard with a coax. I've never seen one of those before.
More than likely I'll buy a videocard with a TV-out(S-video) jack and go from there. If I need an s-video to coax adapter then I'll buy it.
But honestly I'm not really that knowledgeable on videocards, either. I know that I don't need anything crazy to run MAME, so I figure I'll just get a mid-range card and know that I'm safe.
richms:
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on January 19, 2009, 12:07:34 pm ---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.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, they are ok for getting RGB into the tv for arcade use.
I have several tvs here with scart, and the quality via RGB for tv use is just crap - 2 sat recievers with scart out, and RGB mode is unwatchable to me, and most of the picture controls are disabled in RGB mode so there is no way to turn the saturation down to something watchable.
For the xbox and the arcade side of things they are great, but RGB on something used as a TV to me is useless - component is much better in that all the image controls on the TV still work, and the images look more realistic then the RGB input. Even watching video on the xbox looks horrid on RGB scart, composite is much nicer to watch for dvd's etc.
The RGB input was made initially to be an overlay that would allow a decoder to use the video out of a display to get sync and pull the blanking line when it wanted to place its graphics over the tv image, things like external caption decoders, teletext boxes, and those crazy dialup terminal things that were all the rage in the early 80's that never got anywhere. I think thats where some of the issues come from is that the tv is trying to make the RGB transparent to the underlying composite image rather then giving it a direct drive, and also that the RGB values in an image are nothing to do with what a tube needs to be driven with and last I checked the sat recievers and xboxes had no concept of colourspace conversion to go from sRGB or whatever is being used to the colourspace that the CRT tube uses.
And the connector - well whoever made that probably also had a hand in making the horrid HDMI plugs as well.
daywane:
you can use composit. I did for some time.
heck in a way I still do.
I have a old 52inch tv with a PC monitor on top of it. PC on top of TV also
I play my console EMUs on it. PC monitor is for the menus
Game play would be just fine.
the main problem with composit is the menus are UN readable
Mame 32 GUI text is out of the question to read but you can have the Snap shot up and then you will know what game is up
you gan get a adapto from svid to RCA jack also a multy tap for chaning systems on a TV on the back your hook ups are Svid, RCA video and audio and coaxel these sell for $30.00
I have Direct TV, DVD, VCR, PC, Game Qube hooked up with this
Svid is MUCH sharper
have you searched EBay with location at 50 miles from your zip code?
I have picked up many LARGE PC monitors for around $30.00
people are getting rid of them for smaller LCD's
KWeise:
If you have a nearby Sears, you can get a 27" from their web site shipped to the store: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05747267000P?keyword=sansui+27&sLevel=0
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