Video from pc to sony wega

Skar Rynn

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Jul 25, 2006
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I have a little problem with my wega television that I'm sure some of you can help me with.

I have a Sony wega model # KDE-42XS955 flat screen plasma. I also have an ATI 7000 AGP 64mb video card in my computer. The S-video wire comes out of the port on the card and I had to put an adapter to a regular video coaxal wire [you know the yellow one :)](cuz I couldnt find anything longer because I need at least 75 feet to run the wire behind the wall an all that jazz)

My problem arises when I attempt to play videos that I have (music videos) most of them are from ares shared files but they are all your normal video file format. when I try to play any of them the picture on the screen is "tri-imaged" as such as there are three sets of the same image on the television the image is also severely distorted and blury and there is almost no color just black and white.

Also while the video itself is playing when the menu is brought up it also will blink in and out, but only while the video is playing.

I have tried just about everything and am getting a little frustrated as noone has been able to help me with my problem. It is for my personal bar in my basement and the only thing I have the television for is for my music videos.

If any of you have had any experience with my type of problem please help. If you need any more info please ask.
 

Job

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Jan 16, 2006
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Composite video (the yellow one) is god-awful quality at the best of times, and if you are running a converter from S-Video to composite then it will be even worse. There are five possible problems

1) Video card is faulty
2) The component wire is faulty
3) The Svideo wire is faulty
4) The converter is faulty
5) The TV is faulty

You could test each of these out by connecting up a TV to Svideo or component with/without the converter, etc, but this may take a while. IMO I think it's most likely a problem with the wires. Get yourself a 25 meter SVideo cable (they're not that expensive) and I think the problem will go away.

SVideo is vastly superior to composite anyway - you can get horrific colour-bleeding and banding issues using that type of connection. I'd advise SVideo even if you weren't having problems!

PS Make sure your TV has correctly tuned AV inputs - my tv-out looks awful on AV2-1 but perfectly fine on AV2-S (this kind of labelling for channels will vary for manufacturers)