s-video to vga adaptor

cybereclipse

cybereclipse

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hey guys,
i need to know where I can get a good but inexpensive s-video to vga or a red-white-yellow to vga adaptor. I already tried ebay and got ripped off twice...:(

anybody?
 
What exactly are you trying to do? Go from say a console to your monitor or from your PC to a TV? If you're trying to go to your TV, I'm pretty sure one of those would work if all the settings are correct. TVs and VGA monitors work in totally different ways.
 
cybereclipse said:
oh

so things like this
http://cgi.ebay.com/VGA-converter-a...9QQihZ017QQcategoryZ31531QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/VGA-converter-a...0QQihZ019QQcategoryZ41999QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and millions of other ones are bs?
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my sarcasm detector could be malfunctioning here, but this seems like a pretty asshole-ish response to someone who was trying to help you out

he's telling you the truth, vga is basically seperate s-video connectors for red/blue/green discretely. These seperate signals can easily be shorted out, and high passed to create a single-channel rca, or svhs signal, but there's no way to re-seperate the red/green/blue from an already collapsed signal without some sort of processing, which is why you need either a capture card, or a converter box, with a power supply to boost the signal once it's split.

Again, i apologize if i misinterpreted your post, but he's trying to help you out.
 
actually now that i read my post over again, it does sound kind assholish, but there was no real sarcasm meant..... sorry,......but seriously, are they bs??
 
Yes and no... I'm pretty sure there are ways to convert directly from VGA to SVHS/RCA. However, not every video card is capable of doing so, as one of those auctions said.
 
they're not bs, but they go the other way

they're designed to attach to the end of a vga cable, and convert it to svhs/rca to hook up to your tv.

if i understand correctly, you want to go the other way, and hook up an svideo source to your computer monitor.

What are you trying to hook up, btw? If it's a video game system, there's cables for most of them that are actually vga hookups, if you were wanting to play on your monitor. if it's a vcr/dvd player or something else, you'll need a converter, unfortunately.
 
well, i bought one a while ago, but it didnt work (came from hong kong)
what im tryin to do is my current video card (nvidia geforce 4) has an s-video output, im tryin to use a s-video to vga adaptor so i can hook up the s-video line to a vga port on the monitor..
thanks for all who are tryin to help
 
hahaha wow thats frekin lowwwww res:eek:

looks like its time for a new graphics card.... any suggestions??

PS please dont mention those 600 dollar video cards, i just want something decent that can run 2 monitors...
 
you can just add a 2nd video card to run a second monitor

that's what i'm doing.

most games only support one monitor anyways, so it wont be a huge deal if the 2nd card is lower performance.

so i just got a pci x1300 to run my 2nd and 3rd monitor, so all 3 could be dvi
 
more have one dvi and one vga than dual dvi

you could run such a card dual vga, but i wouldn't run one monitor digital and the other analog
 
well, an analog vga cable has to be converted from digital to analog by the video card, and then converted from analog back to digital by your monitor, so there will be a bit of latency added into the signal, and most likely a marginal amount of distortion as well

this wouldn't be significant if all displays were being hooked up the same way, but if one monitor were hooked up to pure digital, while the other one was hooked up with analog, there may be some odd differences when they're sitting side by side.
 
heyman421 said:
this wouldn't be significant if all displays were being hooked up the same way, but if one monitor were hooked up to pure digital, while the other one was hooked up with analog, there may be some odd differences when they're sitting side by side.
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I beg to differ...

DVI runs off both digital and analog signals. That's why it's so simple to convert. In most cases, there really is no, or very little difference in the video output. My monitor has both DVI and VGA inputs, and the only difference I notice is when running at lower resolutions. There are some other things I don't totally beleive, but I've not researched enough to prove my point :rolleyes:
 
DVI-A has analog in the extra 4 pins to the side, which is why you can convert it back to vga.

your monitor will use the digital pins, tho

DVI-D doesn't have those analog pins
 
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