Computer to TV display, S-video problem

[Robear313]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here so i wasn't sure where this should go but this is my problem:

I have an NVIDIA graphics card with a s-video out option and my Insignia TV has an s-video in option. I have no problem getting my display to swtich back and forth between the TV and the monitor. My problem is that the display on my tv has this line running from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen constantly and it drives me crazy and distracts me from watching movies through my PC on my TV. It only happens when i swtich to the TV display. Normal cable TV viewing is fine, and the computer monitor display is also fine. Its only when i switch from the monitor to the TV that i get this single line running up and down the screen. I don't remember it being there when i first bought the S-video cable so i'm not sure if the cable is damaged. I've tried changing the screen resolution to all the lower quality settings but no such luck. Does anyone have any idea? Has this happened to anyone before? I'd love to get rid of that line!

Also, I am using windows XP, it is an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 video card, and Driver Version 5.6.5.6.

- Rob

 

[laznz1]

S-Video is an older style connection which i bielive is only analoge and your taking it from a digital computer to a digital TV using a Analoge cord so the quality wont be great

 

[Robear313]

S-Video is an older style connection which i bielive is only analoge and your taking it from a digital computer to a digital TV using a Analoge cord so the quality wont be great

But the quality is actually great, its just this one line of resolution that runs from the bottom of my television to the top. I wasn't sure if this was a problem with the cable or if this was normal. I thought it might be normal because it reminded me of when you watch the news on television and they show computer monitors in the background and you see lines running through the screens because i guess they have different levels of resolution. But i guess it is not normal what i am experienceing because nobody else seems to complain about it online.

 

[The_Other_One]

Try another cable, or even RCA. It almost sounds like you have a short in your cable. Or I know some devices simply don't like some inputs. I'm not sure if the signal's too powerful or what, but I tend to get that same line I think you're referring to if I go from my PC to my DVD recorder.

As for the news channels, I'm pretty sure what you see's mostly from interlaced video...though I know my new camcorders tend to show similar (but less pronounced) lines when recording my LCD on my computer.