cable question

**jteffo** · 12-29-2002,03:49 PM

Hey everyone, i want to connect my pc to my tv so i can use the tv as a second display. i have tv out on my video card (i hope thats the right thing to have to hook up the tv to it). i dont know what the cable would be called or and i can't seem to find anything remotely close to what i'm looking for. will someone give me an 'official' name for it or something or give me a link to one or anything that might help me out. thanks. jteffo

**Purple Penguin** · 12-29-2002,04:58 PM

are you talking about the red, white and yellow things?

I've heard them called RCA cables or simply Audio/Video cables.

if it's not the red, white and yellow kind then maybe your talking about S-Video cables, or component video cables.

**necrolop** · 12-29-2002,04:59 PM

They are called RCA Composite Cables. Composite is their official name, and they were created by RCA, hense the name RCA Composite cables.

**Purple Penguin** · 12-29-2002,05:07 PM

yep, I knew that. I sure did

**jteffo** · 12-29-2002,07:47 PM

i know the rca part, but the other end has to be for the tv out port on my video card, it looks like an s video thing but i'm not sure if it is

JimmyJones · 12-29-2002,08:01 PM

If it looks like S-video and is a "TV-Out" port, then chances are it's S-video. There are some problems with graphics cards' S-video output, though...sometimes they use a Seven pin S-video cable, and it doesn't always work correctly with certain other video stuff.
Anyway, no matter about that. If you're stuck because your TV doesn't have S-video, you should be able to find an s-video to composite adapter on the net somewhere (or make your own from Radio Shack) Sometimes the card will include one.

**necrolop** · 12-29-2002,08:02 PM

most video cards have s-video. Its hard to convert Svideo to composite because s-vio carried white and color light in different signals, lumanance and chroma. Since Composite video carries it in one signal, called ntsc-video , the svideo signals must be put back togeter, whsih isnt easy and will result in lower quality picture.

**jteffo** · 12-29-2002,08:09 PM

will the picture on the tv even look remotely good or will it look really blurry and shit?

**gokuguy** · 12-29-2002,08:12 PM

There will be a significant difference in quality.

JimmyJones · 12-29-2002,08:17 PM

TV Output on PCs is really only a gimmick type of thing right now. It's only really good if you want to watch a DVD rip or maybe play a video game or something. Even then, it's not really worth it. The only thing I've been satisfied with watching on a TV is old anime downloads, that seemed to be encoded just right so that the video artifacting and stuff looked a little better on a TV (because of the lower resolution)

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