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S-Video Colour issues

  • 24-11-2006 11:44am
    #1
    MonkeyWrench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭


    I managed to get my s-video connection sorted on my laptop to TV recently but the colour and resolution on the tv is poor in comparison with what is on the laptop display.

    Basically I have a Dell 510M laptop with a 7-pin output s-video connection. I bought a 4 pin s-video cable (as this seems to be the only one available) and connected this to my Samsung LCD TV which has a 4-pin connection.

    I managed to get a picture after a bit of configuring of the display options on the laptop but the picture is of a low quality. In a typical movie, the faces on people would be orange and the colours of the surroudings would be leaking into each other. On the laptop screen though everything is looks perfect.

    Is there some setting on the Laptop I need to sort or is the problem coming from the fact that I have the 4-pin s-video cable connected into my 7-pin s-video output on the Dell. I have searched websites and the general opinion seems to be that the extra 3 pins are not relevant and a normal 4 pin cable should work fine in this situation?

    Help would be much appreciated...


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    From what I read on the s-video wiki entry you are correct the s-video cable uses only 4 pins those 7 pin connections found on notebooks are a non-standard design and not needed for normal s-video output.

    Are you using some sort of adapter that converts the 7 pin to 4 pin or plugging the 4 pin cable straight in ?

    The s-video site sells such an adapter just in case. Not sure it would make any difference though.

    I have a Samsung LCD TV and I noticed a (difficult to describe) a weird hue/tone/glaze to the picture when running a notebook over s-video, the picture quality simply isn't as good vs plugging the notebook into the VGA or DVI/HDMI ports on the TV.

    You may want to mess with the colour balance controls in the TV as well as over s-video those are not disabled on the TV side.


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