How to hook up a TV to my Radeon 7500? and where to buy cables?

[adlep]

I never have done it before, and since I have an OEM version, I did not get any of the cables....
What set of cables should I get IF my TV DOES NOT have an S-Video connector?
I have relatively new Phillips 27 inch tv, and looking at the back of it, it only have a coax(BNC), cable connector and a
pair (for in and out) of yellow, white and red connector (I assume that it is a RCA composite but I might be wrong)....
Also where is the best place to buy them online?
Help?

 

[AkumaBao]

There is a piece of equipment that ATI sells with some of the other cards, and I'm sure it's what yours would have come with if it was a retail version. It's a bridge that has S-Video on one end, and 3 RCA plugs on the other side. (video-in, L & R audio-in) You might check with ATI to see if that will work with your card. I'm almost more than sure it wil, but it never hurts to check.

 

[rbV5]

nm

 

[adlep]

nm?
oh !.. nm
lol

 

[adlep]

rbV5 thans for an answer

 

[rbV5]

, hehe sorry, I did have something say, but messed up my post, and had to run before I could retype it. Oh and that thread....yikes, I forgot about that. Looks like rbV5 could take some nice pills before responding to threads........

Did you find what you were looking for?

 

[adlep]

Well,
I guess you could of make my life a little bit easier by pointing me to some good on-line
store wich sell the cables like that... I mean the cable I am loking for should have S/video in connector (for my card, male I guess)
and 3 RCA composite jacks at the second end (to hook it up to TV, male too). ATI sell this kind of cable but it has only one (yellow) RCA jack, the two other connectors are left out(but maybe it does have a sence after all, the two left out connectors are for the sound, and it is a video card)
Any chance I can connect my sound card (SB LIVE classic the full version) to TV as well to get a sound....
Thx,

Also, Ive read that there is a image quality probem when converting from S-video to RCA composite, is there anything I can do to avoid that, some better than standart cable, or maybe I can get, dont know? s-video to coax converter.... I wont buy another Phillips again
piece of crap, and it is a new tv, like 2 years old.... dammit

 

[rbV5]

<< ATI sell this kind of cable but it has only one (yellow) RCA jack, the two other connectors are left out( >>



Thats because s-video only carries the VIDEO signal. You'll need that ATI adapter(or any S-video to composite(rca) adaptor and you'll you need to hook the audio from your soundcard line-out plug. I use a mini din to rca(composite)Y adapter connected to a length of stereo audio dubbing cable going from the mini din line-out plug of my SBlaster hooked to the right and left stereo rca connecters on my TV, and a seperate s-video cable from my AIW into my TV's s-video connecter. You could just get an A/V dubbing cable(has the 2 audio rca connectors plus the yellow video connector) and just plug that s-video adaptor like the one form ATI onto the yellow connector on one end.

Online, I've had great luck with CablestoGo for my cable needs, but a quick search didn't turn up any hits for the adaptor, maybe Radioshack?

 

[adlep]

Thx man!
Ill figure this out, unfortunately you still have to be very carefull when buing a tv set....

 

[adlep]

OK to be sure

this is what I need to connect my sound card to tv, right?


which one of these would you recomend to connect the video card to tv?
Damm these cables are pricey..

this seems to be a good site btw they have bunch of guides, pictures, and comparisions....

 

[adlep]

This is my last qestion, I promice
With the ATI card I have, do I have to lower the resolution on my system to 800x600 (currently I have 1024x768x16)
before I will try to connect the tv set.... I know that this is the case with Nvidia cards, not sure about ATI's?????

 

[rbV5]

<< this is what I need to connect my sound card to tv, right? >>


If you have female rca connectors on your audio dubbing cable and a 3.5mm female line-out connector on your sound card, thats the one you need..yes. I use one similar to this one because it has the female rca connectors and my audio dubbing cable has male rca connectors.


<< which one of these would you recomend to connect the video card to tv? >>


The cheapest one thats long enough to fit, note that with this type of cable, it has all the connectors you need, the Y adaptor for the sound card would be unnecissary.


<< With the ATI card I have, do I have to lower the resolution on my system to 800x600 >>


Your card supports up to 1024 X 768 with video out. I use "theater mode" with overscan enabled for video files, and clone the primary monitor with no overscan while gaming at 1024 X 768 using the s-video connection , and the IQ is great. With my old TV, I used an RF adaptor using the composite-out, and while definately not as nice, it was still very good, so you should be fine.

Don't hesitate to ask all the questions you want, really, thats what the forums are for. There's nothing more frustrating than being stuck, and not being able to figure it out.

 

[adlep]

Sweet,
thx!