6130 TV Out Problems

Recently on vacation I wanted to play video to a hotel television only to find it only accepts RCA. I ordered a the S Video RCA adapter http://store.yahoo.com/directron/svhsmrcaf.html

Unfortunately this seems to lose the color signal. The picture is fine if you don't mind watching everything grey scale! Fortunately it didn't cost much.

Has anyone had any success with this and might be able to suggest something?

 

I tried it on my vcr running to my tv and it's black and white. I haven't been able to find a fix for it either. I think it has to do with adapter converting the rca signal to s-video.
-Andrew

 

I looked around for other such adapters. Belkin made one which can be found on pricegrabber which looks like the one linked above but in black. Belkin no longer lists it on their site which isn't a good sign so I didn't try it.

I found this one which has a 3 inch cable length between the two ends so I know its different. http://www.lg-internet.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/238

I haven't received it yet, but when I do I'll post the results here.

 

You might want to read http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/printthread.php?t=66287

 

Thank you FN400.

Powered transcoding was going to be my next line of questions after I (probably) find the last little cable I purchased (above) performs sub-par.

 

OK, the little cable http://www.lg-internet.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/238 actually worked well enough I don't need a powered adapter.

I lose a little brightness but the colors are intense enough that I actually have to turn them down a bit. The television brightness can compensate for what is lost.

 

Good to know the cable works okay for you. It's much cheaper than the powered adapter! I ordered a female S-video to male RCA adapter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812102122 for my fujitsu notebook. I have not got it yet. I hope it works well

 

Yikes. That looks like the one I first tried except it is in black instead of yellow. http://store.yahoo.com/directron/svhsmrcaf.html Let me know if it works.

Oddly there was one television (at my mom-in-laws) which it did work and it was the only one I tested it on before I left for vacation. Since then I've found no other television which will display color with it.

But even on that television I had to play around with the dot crawl setting from Standard to Frozen depending if it was a movie or picture I was displaying otherwise it too was in B/W. Very inconvenient. (These settings are part of the ATI driver on the Averatec 6130)

 

I got the adapter. Surprisingly it works well! The colors on the TV are a little more saturated than they are on my Fujitsu LCD. I do not notice any loss of brightness, and more importantly, signal noise like white dots or patterns.

 

Congrats. I noticed that this adapter is male RCA. Why male RCA? My guess is you are using an S Video cable from the notebook to the tv or vcr and then converting to RCA.

I have a 10 foot RCA cable which has video, L and R audio molded right to it. Thick as all get out, I always get second looks when I use it. That is why I try to convert the signal at the laptop first, and the cable is good to go on anything with an RCA input, the majority of products.

 

You're right. I'm using a regular S-video (male-male) cable to connect the notebook to the VCR female video RCA. Signal conversion is done by the adapter just before it is connected to the VCR.