Help with S-Video or ????

[guarana]

Can someone tell me what a s-video cable should look like ??

I bought a Geforce 6200 card and lost all of the extra components (manual , s-video cables etc). I have seen one of the cables before but i dont know if its a s-video or component video cable (please excuse my total ignorance).

The cable had a lot of jacks on the one side (5 or more) and i think it was a s-video jack on the other ?

Can someone help me to find one of these for sale somewhere ... my supplier does not seem to be in a helpfull mood

thanks

Jack

 

[CalvinHobbes]

http://www.sbfilmaudio.com/svideo.jpg

That's s-video.


Composite and component both have RCA connectors. Component is only video, composite is normally L/R audio (red/white) and video (yellow).

 

[knyghtbyte]

most electrical goods companies, on or offline that sell TV's, DVD players, etc should stock them.

 

[kamranziadar]

did you get it

 

[guarana]

I downloaded the manual (after many tries) ... it seems it is something called a HDTV cable .... its got the s-video + more on it ?

Thanks for all your help ... sorry for teh lame question

 

[PurdueRy]

ah good ol' made up names

Component = Red green blue cable. For transmitting video signal over three seperate cables. It caries 1 channe of luminance and two channels of chrominance. This is the "best" of the three and is necessary to use progressive scan output.

S-Video = Sepearates the video signal into 2 parts. Chrominance and luminance. It provides a MUCH better picture than composite.

Composite = all video on 1 wire. Results in a noisy video signal.

They were probably referring to the "Component" cable as the "HDTV" cable.