Yup.. I am in the UK. My TV is on AV3/S and I'm using PAL. By the way, does it make any difference to apply without reboot and to apply after reboot? because there is an option to apply without reboot. Anyway, I'm going to give this Reboot method a try. Oh, and FYI, I took my Laptop to a PC repair shop the other day and they've tested it on a Hitachi Opus TV with the exact same settings and cable that I've used and it work just fine. It just wont work on my Panasonic TX-28PM1 yet... I'm still trying...

Thanks for the respond DURON..[color=skyblue]

If it works with exact the same settings on another TV, it must be something between the TV and the laptop. Try out the other AV channels on the TV, and theck out the setup menu of the tv, maybe there is something useful in there.

I've also tried all available AV channels on the TV (AV1,AV2,AV2/S,AV3 and AV3/S) all with same results...B&W picture. Anyway...I think I'm going to give it another day or two before I give up and sell this stupid TV of mine!! Thanks again DURON. My advice to all u guys out there....if connecting PC to TV is the main reason for you to go and buy a new TV make sure you bring you PC/Laptop and check its compatibility with the TV at the shop before buying or you'll end up like me! I cant return/exchange it because they said that the TV is not faulty since it work perfectly well with other appliances like my DVD Player and Handycam.

Oh..and there's nothing much in the TV setup menu as well. believe me...I've read and memorize every single detail of its manual hahhaaha that's how crazy people can get trying to connect PC to TV. But some lucky guys like DURON and others just make it look so simple and easy... some people also tell me that I should try connecting via a DVD Recorder but then again that would mean spending some more ££££ as well :(

http://www.avforums.com/forums/archi...p/t-20107.html

http://www.avforums.com/forums/archi...p/t-98434.html

Or maybe it's just the cable. :)

Still Black & White
 

HI there,

My laptop has a 7 pin s-video output in wich i connected one end of a 4 pin s-video cable and the other end i connected to a scart adaptor just like the one in the image how-to. I only connected the s-video from the pc to the s-video entry of the adaptor as an input. And connected the output of the adapator as a scart male directly to the scart female input of the TV.

The problem is that i can only see my pc in black & white in the TV. My television supports PAL B & G, and my display definitions of my ATI graphic card is set to that kind of display, so what's wrong?

Any ideas please?

Tanx!

Well, it is possible your TV is not on the right AV channel.
Also, sometimes those 7pin connectors have a different layout, and they need their own cable to work. Mostly, 7pin is S-video and composite combined in one connector, which could explain the loss of the cromatic information.
The first thing you could try is connecting the laptop to another TV (form another brand) that way, you can be sure it's not the TV.

Ok, trying to connect to another TV migth work to see if the problem is on the TV! But should the reason of the problem of seeing in black&white caused by sending the signal out of a 7 pin s-video through a 4 pin cable? Because i believe several people are using the 4-pin cable, and they seemed to see in colour while changing to a scart connection.

By the way DURON, since you wrote the How To, how did you connect through the s-video to scart connection? Did you use a 7-pin cable? And does your adaptor contains a female 7-pin input?

Tanx!

Cave!

Help please?

Cave!

did connecting to another TV work?

No, i couldn't try the connection with other tv. But even so i was trying to know if my connection was exactly as you explained in your diagram, i.e., i didn't connect the audio yet, but with the image, i'm using a 4 pin s-video cable on both sides connecting between my laptop and the adpator, and using the scart output of the adaptor directly in the "av->1" or the "av->2" of my tv. Both the tv and the ati graphic card are set to PAL B, G which is the correct system, so not a problem over there. I have seriously doubts about the cables, since they are absolutely new (although they weren't tested in the store because they came in closed boxes). My Tv is also new and the adaptor has all the 20 pins in the scart output. Also i even tryed to connect both the upper pins of the s-video cable (this is if you have a 4 pin s-video cable and you), the upper pins are like this:

* *
* *
--

Because as a user "TheRippa" of one forum stated, this connects the luminance and chrominance of the signal. So I connected these 2 pins with some kind of wire around them in the end of the cable before i insert the cable in the adaptor. It corrected his problem of seeing black&white but it didn't worked for me!!

Tanx!

You are living in Europe right? In America it's all NTSC. :)

I've used this cable first:http://www.madshrimps.be/howto/Conne...-DUR0N-370.jpg
then I went from both S-video or composite to the scart block.

You went from both S-video or composite to the scart block! How did you do that? Did you connect the s-video out of the pc to the s-video of the adaptor and then you connect the scart out of the adaptor to the scart entry of the Tv or you connect more than that?

Tanx!

You can choose between s-video and composite on some blocks, or even connect them both. I don't recommend attaching them both at the same time, it is possible (yet unlikely) the signal loops back into your graphics card.
And it gives more distortion.

Hi there!

I already solved my problem thanx to this forum:

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...1&page=2&pp=15

I hope it helps someone else!

Thanx anyway!

So it was just a bad cable after all? :)

Nope Duron! Not indeed! Like the forum from the link that i stated before, and like TheRippa stated, there are some TVs that cannot receive s-video through scart inputs. So, instead of buying another cable from s-video to rca or anything like that, you can connect the 2 upper pins of the s-video cable with a piece of wire around them and voilá! You get colour! Pretty simple hum?

Best wishes,

Cave!

same problem as I had

there are cables from svideo to rca which have this connection u made by yourself,

not very customer friendly in fact

It might not be very customer friendly, but it works and you don't need to buy another cable, you just need to connect the pins with a little piece of wire, and you get better quality than with rca.

connecting pc to tv
 

Hi,
I have to run about 20m to my Pal TV.
TV out is svideo.

I have had a thought that I would appreciate your feedback on.

Instead of running svideo or composite plus audio using separate wires or cat5 with baluns ( an expensive option ).
What about converting video and audio to an rf signal and running thru coax to a tuner.

This seems on the surgface to be a cheap practical option, but I'm probably missing something.

Transmitter frequency (is missing) in VHF to receiver (tuner).
RF (radio frequency) requires a transmitter; and a receiver (tuner).

Tv to pc
 

Thanks Lazy,

The composite/audio to rf converter I am looking at is powered and uses either channel 0 or 1.
Does this address your issue?

I am not sure what you are using exactly. However, TV reception is either; wireless turner (VHF or UHF), cable (satelite inclusive) and Svideo (direct).
Using PCI tv turner card from PC, and wireless transmision to TV which receives both audio and video signalsn from svideo input. Is this what to want to do?

If it is, I haven't tried. May be others can help.

tv to pc
 

Thanks Lazy,

What I am trying to do is take av signals from computer svideo/stereo then convey to a tv about 20m away.

I have explored using baluns to carry sound and video over cat5 cable,
so composite video and audio in and out, with cat5 in between.
Probably work ok but expensive.

My other thought is to use a converter to send composite video and audio to an rf channel. Send over coax to the tuner.
If this worked it would be a reasonable cost.

The reason I ask this is I have seen a lot of discussion re sending video over svideo etc, but virtually none on this idea. The reason for this might be it is impractical, if so I would like to understand why.

I appreciate your thoughts, maybe some others might have issues

I'm using a 10m svideo cable, quality is only average... image degrading is visible though

Hi,
I have done it and it works fine.
It seems to me that this old but reliable technology is a good way around the problem of sending an av signal to another room.
Thanks to those who raised issues.

tv resolution
 

I successfully connect tv to pc, however, the resolution of the tv is really blurry (but in color), you can hardly read a word; while the monitor remains very clear? what can I do to adjust the tv resolution? Please help~ Thanks~

well, a TV set is very low res and not meant to be used as a monitor;

You could try upgrading your cables, most of the time it's due to a bad cable. Also, if you have composite you might try s-video. People have seen remarkable differences between those two.