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DVI to RGB (for the back of a TV)

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fixxxer0

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I'm wondering if this even exists. S-Video looks like crapola on my TV, and RGB is the best input to use, just wondering anyone makes a cable that plugs into a DVI port on the video card and goes out as 3 seperate cables (rca looking) to the RGB on the back of a TV?


 
Isn't RGB composite (not component) video, which is worse than S-Video?

Maybe you think it looks crap since it's a PC monitor you are comparing to a TV, and then you compare what you see on TV from the PC to what you see on TV from the VCR, which is a diferent type of source, made to look good on TV.
 
Okay,

Most TV's do not accept RGB. If it supports three separate video input cables, it usually called COMPONENT video, and labled Y, Cr, Cb (or Y Pr Pb). Component uses a color difference system. One channel is the brightness (luminance). One channel is luminance minus red. One channel is luminance minus green. Okay, it actually isn't that SIMPLE, but the idea is that if you know the total brightness of a pixel, and know what part of that comes from red, and what part comes from green, you can figure out what part is blue.

Mircea: Composite video means luminance and chrominance are muxed on a single channel.

Anyways, no more digressing, do a Google search of "DVI to component" and the first result takes you to some store that sells a $30 DVI->Component adaptor for ATI Radeons. So apparently they do exist.
 
Originally posted by: superbooga
Originally posted by: fixxxer0
no there are RGB rca inputs on my tv

it says color stream input (dvd-in)
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Yes, they are the component inputs. My guess is that you have Toshiba TV.
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yep exactly 🙂

and the color code on them is RED GREEN and BLUE

so DVI to component is what im really looking for still?
 
and the color code on them is RED GREEN and BLUE

so DVI to component is what im really looking for still?
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Yes, you are looking for DVI to component. If you want to be really sure, look at the manual that comes with the TV.

 
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