Re: VGA or DVI to s-Video

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From: Michael Earls (mearls_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05


Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:56:54 -0500

That's a good question. I don't know. My gut tells me that a convertor
(should such a thing exist) would degrade the signal more than the existing
S-Video port. But I really have no idea.

-- 
Michael Earls
The Cerebral Kitchen
http://www.cerkit.com/
"Deck" <bldecker@insightbb.com> wrote in message 
news:eNZatXwKFHA.572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> TV just has an s-video input.  I'm trying to see if I can improve the 
> picture quality by using a different output on the video card besides the 
> s-video TV out.  The only way to hook it to my TV would be to convert the 
> vga output to s-video.
>
> Really wondering if there is a converter out there that might accomplish 
> this without reducing the quality of the signal.  I figure most video 
> cards handle VGA extremly well and s-video not so well.
>
> "Michael Earls" <mearls@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:Or2BZQwKFHA.904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> I'm confused.  What inputs does your TV have?
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Earls
>> The Cerebral Kitchen
>> http://www.cerkit.com/
>>
>>
>> "Deck" <bldecker@insightbb.com> wrote in message 
>> news:%23cFZE7vKFHA.4092@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>I have a question about video cards and cables.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of an adapter that will convert VGA or DVI outputs on a 
>>> video card to s-Video.  I have an FX5200 and it has an s-video out but I 
>>> was wondering if I would get better picture quality on a SDTV with an 
>>> s-video input by using a converter instead of the s-video out on the 
>>> card?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Deck
>>>
>>
>>
>
> 


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