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S-Video Laptop to TV connection
Hi, I've been doing some more research and I found 2 sites with schemas for converting 4-pin s-video to composite video. It's a lot simpler than I thought... http://homepage.oninet.pt/678mbd/scartsw2.htm http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html The second explains a... -
S-Video Laptop to TV connection
Gmcmen, If you tv doesn't have s-video, you'll only get black/white image from the 4 pin (outer pins) connection... But, if you can find a 7 pin s-video plug, you can send composite video (RGB) to the scart plug by using the following schema: RGB switching control -connect pin 1 to pin 18... -
S-Video Laptop to TV connection
Hi Gmcmen. You can check http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~bob/video/scart/scart.html for the pin-out in scart side. But I must remind you that the four outer pins in s-video will only work in a TV that already supports s-video, otherwise all you'll get is black/white. For the pin-out of s-video... -
S-Video Laptop to TV connection
Hi RJG_ first of all, s-video to scart is only usefull when your tv already supports s-video... it means that one of the scart entries on your tv can be configured for s-video mode... and usually you also have an s-video entry... As mentioned above by AcE_IoXx (and completed by me), the outer... -
S-Video Laptop to TV connection
Hi, I tried this configuration but, in order to have the notebook recognize the TV, you also need to connect Pin 1 to pin 18 of the scart connector. This is because pin 16 and 18 of the scart connector are for RGB switching control (and ground!). So, you would get: RGB switching control...
