RE: FN-FORUM: WAAAAY [OT] - but it's worth a try!! S-video help needed

date posted 20th August 2003 19:01

This is totally a non-technically-correct-but-works solution:

S-Video differs from normal "composite" (on phonos / scarts) video because
it splits the brightness information (luma) from the colour information
(chroma). A nice fix to convert this back again, without spending ?100 on a
converter box that does it professionally, is simply to connect the luma in
parallel with the chroma, and feed them both into the phono socket or scart
socket of the TV etc. That's the way I did it when I needed to feed the
video out of a Sony video conferencing camera down 250m of coax for an
outside broadcast thing that I did...

Rob

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> needed
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>
> hey all,
>
> i'm needing to connect my laptop to a large television to do a
> presentation.
>
> my laptop has an s-video output, so i purchased an s-video to scart
> cable to plug into the telly....
>
> i tried it on the tv i have at home, and when i flip through the
> various AV channels, the image appears black and white, until i get to
> the 's-video' channel and the image appears colour.
>
> now, when i try and use the cable on the TV i am intending to use (very
> old 28" bang and olufsen...) i can't find a dedicated 's-video'
> channel, so flipping through the AV channels the image from my laptop
> appears black and white on all of them.......
>
> is there something i can buy or use that will decode the s-video output
> from my laptop to something this old television will understand?
>
> i tried using a VCR in between the laptop and TV, hoping the new VCR
> would understand the s-video connection, but no luck.
>
> thanks in advance for any pointers!
> luke
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