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Sun 21 Nov, 2004 12:59 am
Help me someone please! I just bought an svideo cable today, I didn't buy s-video to rca, which I now think I should have Due to all the problems I am having. So I ran the svideo from my TV Out on my Dell Dimension 4550 with Windows XP to my Amp, since my tv is a little older and doesn't have the svideo. I can't get any picture t all to come up on my TV. I can't figure it out. Do I have to buy another cord, one that is svideo/rca to go from the Amp to the tv? I thought I would be fine because Everything runs through the amp and it's fine. The svideo cord is going into the Svideo In on the amp, and then I have an rca going from the Amp to my TV. Any help in this matter would be Greatly appreciated
I think it depends upon the amp. Is it capable of downconverting the S-video signal to the lower fidelity RCA? Possibly not.
Can you run the S-Video out from your Dell directly to the TV, i.e. one of the external inputs (video 2, 3, 4...etc.)? Try it and post back.
Now I am confused?
Hi, Sorry. I am not sure if I get what you mean. There is no place on my TV to plug anything extra in besides the cable wire, and the Red, Yellow and White wires. I think I am going to have to return the wire I bought and get a wire that is SVideo on one side and Composite on the other, I saw one at radioshack for 30 bucks. The only other option is a little adapter type thing that plugs into the end of the SVideo and cahnges it to Composite. I was hoping I didn't have to do that, that there was something I was not doing, but it looks like that's not the case. Unless you have a suggestion??
The AMP is an RCA RT2600, it has two places for Sivdeo to go in, and one for SVideo out. I was hoping I didn't have to worry about the Out part, since I already have the regular Composite going out. But with the proper Svideo/composite cord then i would just plug it into where the others are plugged in and in theory it should be ok?
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