Hollywood+ TV Out question -- S-video-RCA converter?

[AndrewR]

I am trying to sell a Hollywood+ that I purchased used from someone. In the purchase, I was never given anything but the video passthrough cable though apparently the Hollywood+ comes with both an S-video and an RCA connector.

What cable would someone need to buy in order to connect this to an RCA input on a TV? Would it just be an S-video to RCA converter of some sort? Thanks for the help.

 

[Vinny N]

If the card has an RCA connector, wouldn't you just use a plain, male-male RCA composite video cable and hook it directly into the TV's RCA composite video in?

 

[NoreagaCNN]

You can use a Male RCA to RCA Connector, or if you want clearer video and have an S-Video connector you'll need a RCA to S-Video Connector.

Peace,
Nore

 

[NoreagaCNN]

The Hollywood Plus being the RCA Output and The TV being the S-Video or RCA Output, you can also connect it to a VCR, etc.

Laterz,
Nore

 

[AndrewR]

No, it does NOT have an RCA connector, at least not like I'm used to seeing. It LOOKS like an S-video connector, but the pinout is not identical. On the Hollywood+ website, it says something about the pin arrangement which can accomodate both S-Video and RCA (composite?) if you want to make your own cable (something like that).

So, if that's some form of an S-video connector, and I hear it's supposed to include a cable to hook into there (possibly an RCA to S-video converter -- proprietary?), would a standard converter cable work?

 

[Vinny N]

<< I am trying to sell a Hollywood+ that I purchased used from someone. In the purchase, I was never given anything but the video passthrough cable though apparently the Hollywood+ comes with both an S-video and an RCA connector. >>



This is why I thought you said it had both


Those connectors seem to be pretty universal as they're on laptops with tv out, other dvd decoder cards tv out, and video cards with tv out.

If you're certain the pin out is different then maybe you do a special whatever->rca cable, but as universal as these seem then some website out there must carry them and they must have a certain name...

Otherwise I would go with my gut that it's just a female SVHS output on the card, and you could use a standard converter cable that's SVHS to RCA...

 

[beat mania]

On the H+, its a svideo pin out with an addition pin added for the rca signal. The adapter takes that pin and routes it to an rca connector. And because it is just an extra hole in the connector, you can connect a regular svideo cable with no problem.

If you want to make an adaptor for it, just get a minidin male cable that fits the connector, find out which pin is the rca signal, and connector it to a rca male cable.

The adaptor is in no way a svideo to rca converter. It shouldn't even fit in a regular svideo connector because of the extra pin. Although to make an svideo to rca connector you'd only need one capacitor plus the connectors...Radio shack sells those for $20.

 

[Vinny N]

That's why I said, if he was certain about the extra pin

 

[beat mania]

I'm certain ... cuz I have a H+

 

[Castellan]

My hollywood Plus came with the adapter you need.

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[AndrewR]

beatmania: I suspected as much, thanks for the explanation (their website sort of references it, but it isn't specific enough).

Castellan: Ah, that's what I need! Thanks.