S Video to Scart?

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Hi all.

I've just moved my PC next to my television so I thought I might as well connect them together for watching films etc.

The graphics card is an old NVidia FX5200 which has SVideo out, and the TV has a scart input.

I guess I need a SVideo to Scart cable and they're about £5-8 on the bay.

Whats the quality like? Is it worth doing?

Cheers.

Edit: Also, do I need to make sure the cable has a 3.5mm plug for the sound to come out of my computer? If not, I could always use the current output which goes into my amp.
 
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you can pick up scart adapters with 2xRCA for sound, RCA for composite video and Svideo connection. Plug this in the tv, regular svideo lead, for sound you could use a 3.5mm->RCA for the sound or use your amp, whatever. All of this depends of course on whether the TV supports Svideo input via that scart, older ones often don't.
 
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Ahhhh I see, it's quite an old tele, I got it for free.

Tatung or something.

Guess i'l just buy one and see if it works. Any way of getting round it if it dosen't?

Cheers.
 
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Phaser said:
Ahhhh I see, it's quite an old tele, I got it for free.

Tatung or something.

Guess i'l just buy one and see if it works. Any way of getting round it if it dosen't?

Cheers.


Svideo uses a yuv signal so you'd have to buy a converter to change it to rgb or composite depending on what the tv accepts. Another option is to get a vga to scart adaptor.
 
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McNutter said:
I've tried s-video to scart cables and they only give a black & white picture. It was on a rubbish TV though so you may get lucky.
It's not down to luck. Your TV either was not set to accept an Svideo signal or it simply couldn't.
 
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