Pc To Tv

[boon racoon]

Basically I'm wanting to connect my PC up to a TV because the way my room is in my new house means it's impossible to arrange things so I can watch stuff off my PC when i'm in bed without needing binoculars

So if I had a lead connecting the two it would be ideal.

I've got a fairly good graphics card with 2 monitor slots (I run dual monitors anyway) and it has an S-Video out port.

Anyone want to point me in the direction of a lead, cable or system which will let me link them? Does it connect through a scart or ariel? I doubt the ariel will even be in use apart from maybe my megadrive

Thanks in advance

Boon.

EDIT: Oh yeah it's nothing to do with Television / channels itself. I just want what's on the PC screen to appear on the TV. I should have a DVD player hooked up too.

Edited September 12, 2007 by the boon

[MadManMike]

Get an S-Video to Scart lead (About £5) (SVid out PC, Scart in TV)

Though if it's the CRT style of TV (ie not LCD or Plasma) you may get some scaling issues - you can buy modulators for that but they aren't cheap.

If it is LCD / Plasma you should be able to just run the blue VGA monitor lead straight from PC to Screen

[boon racoon]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/57791/product_info/rb/0

This be alreet?

I need it to be fairly long (room issues!)

TV is CRT so I guess i'll have to see what happens!

[MadManMike]

That'll work, but be real overkill.

There should be a simple Scart to S-Video cable for less than a fiver.

The one you linked to has adapters and stuff that often go wobbly and mess with the picture

There are two types of S-Video, different number of pins so you may want to go to a local shop to make sure it's the right one.

[Brian Bleech]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/57791/product_info/rb/0

This be alreet?

I need it to be fairly long (room issues!)

TV is CRT so I guess i'll have to see what happens!

thats what I have dude.

Some tv's can be weird, I bought a s-video to scart (like madmanmike is suggesting) and it didn't work, the picture is black and white.

What I had to to do is 'force' the top two pin on my s-video cable together (I used tinfoil) where it goes into the scart adaptor. I found a really good explanation on the internet, I will dig it out

[MadManMike]

thats what I have dude.

Some tv's can be weird, I bought a s-video to scart (like madmanmike is suggesting) and it didn't work, the picture is black and white.

What I had to to do is 'force' the top two pin on my s-video cable together (I used tinfoil) where it goes into the scart adaptor. I found a really good explanation on the internet, I will dig it out

Yeah there are two types of S Video, one will be black and white as a certain number of pins are missing...

Can't remember how many now...

[Brian Bleech]

From this forum...

THE SOLUTION !!!

OK, I had the same problem and I was severely narked as I had just spent 20 quid on an S-Video cable and a converter to SCART only to discover it was in Black and White.

After looking through all of your forum answers and finding no help whatsover, I went for a bit of creative thinking. I read somewhere that if your TV doesn't support S-VHS in through the SCART socket then only the luminance will get through into the composite in. I got to thinking that if I could force the chrominance in through the same pin then I would have composite in. After looking around I found the pinouts for the S-Video cable. If you have a cable with four pins, the chrominance and luminance pins are the two at the top (assuming you look at the pins with the plastic key at the bottom. Simply get some fuse wire (or a paperclip, or some tin foil, or whatever) and strap these two pins together. Simply create a link between the two, plug it back into the SCART plug converter thingy and, hey presto, colour output.

I hope this helps you all

TheRrippa.

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