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Edit- Read bump instead please
Recently I got an 12ft. S-Video cable from worstbuy so I could plug my computer into the big Flatscreen HD TV we have.
When I got home I realized it wasn't S-Video it was Vivo which looks a lot like Svid. Now I asked the moron at best buy if there were any ways to connect a computer to a tv besides s-video and hdmi and he said no.
My video card (Ati Sapphire x1950xt) which came with the vivo cables but they are fucking 6 inches long and completely worthless. It also came with another pack of wires which are yellow and black molexes and have female s-video (The vivo is the Red green blue).
Also my card has 2x DVI outputs with adapters for VGA (which I use for my CRT monitor).
So I was wondering what type of ways are there to connect a comp to a tv. Svid, dvi?, vivo, hdmi, etc? What way is the best way as far as quality of picture and delay to screen?
Which is another thing, It seemed like the picture was delayed a bit (we were playing SF3:3s) I dunno if this was because I used my old computer (which is the only one with a s-video port on the geforce 5500 fx card). And the picture on the desktop was really blurry and hard to read text.
Is there some kind of chart comparison between the methods? Is there a way I can get an adapter to plug a s-video into the vivo port?
Also where is the best/cheapest place to get a hold of such items? Newegg?
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There are ViVo to S-Video adaptors just look at local stores, that type is not common at where I live so I have no idea if you could find it there. But if your video card has it I suppose it would be common to find.
I cannot identify what your cable adaptors are from those pics. But maybe you already have the right one. Doesn't your ViVo cable adaptor plug in the port on one side and the s video on another?
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i have been tryin to do the same thing so i can watch vods on my tv since i watch so many i get tired of sitting at my computer and watching them... i would rather sit at a couch
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hrm I should get me some of these =]
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It's a very simple process that only requires you to look up:
- what plugs your video card have
- what plugs your tv have
- find one in common, or one that is adaptable to the other
- connect them
I have my computer plugged to my TV using the RGB cable (monitor cable). So it all depends on what you have, just look at your tv and video card.
And just don't worry about the cable bandwidth and resolution. The simplest one will have more than what you'll need to watch movies on 20ish inches tv.
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you cant use that vivo to component adapter and just get longer component wires?
or get a cable that is female DVI and male HDMI.obviously you will need to solve the sound problem on your own, but you can just continue to use your computer speakers if they are in the same room.
and as posted above me, monoprice is the place to get cheap cords.
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yea I just watched a movie and its fine but for reading and general computer use it sucks. Plus I'm using an old comp and video card because my comp is the one in the op and I don't have the right cables.
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I thought vivo was just a component output. You cant just hook a component cable up or am i way off?
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On May 22 2009 10:26 VIB wrote:
It's a very simple process that only requires you to look up:
- what plugs your video card have
- what plugs your tv have
- find one in common, or one that is adaptable to the other
- connect them
I have my computer plugged to my TV using the RGB cable (monitor cable). So it all depends on what you have, just look at your tv and video card.
And just don't worry about the cable bandwidth and resolution. The simplest one will have more than what you'll need to watch movies on 20ish inches tv.
+1
I would comment further but you really didn't state what options you have out of your TV.
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Ok , bumping. What gives the best picture quality in a ranking:
HDMI, S-video, Vivo, ? , etc. (i don't know all the possible ways to connect cpu to tv)
Also does it effect quality if you use something like HDMI to DVI converter? My tv can take basically anything, But As you can see in the picture the card is limited to Vivo and DVI which will need converters/adapters.
What is the best method to retain the best picture and latency?
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HDMI = DVI > S-Video = ViVo
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ok, so is there any degradation with using adapters?
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Not really but you'll find that TV screens aren't suited for anything but playing videos and games when you hook up your computer.
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that's ok really (it is a really big HD flat screen), so I just tried to plug the S-video into this adapter
http://www.svideo.com/6110018100.html and the adapter into the vivo port. It didn't work. Am I doing something wrong?
Do I need to plug in the ends of all the cables?
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S-video blows. Just forget about it and use a DVI -> HDMI adapter (DVI is basically the same signal as HDMI, except HDMI can also carry audio and the plug is smaller). As for sound, just get a 3.5mm audio -> red/white RCA adapter. All together this will probably cost you like $10 shipped on monoprice.
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Yea I already have the stereo adapter (actually a couple of them). I don't wanna order it online, there has to be some place I can just pick one up. And since I already have the S-video cable I might as well get the adapter for it.
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
is there a way to get it from ur laptop to the yellow, red and white slots on ur TV?
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On June 17 2009 13:07 CaucasianAsian wrote:
is there a way to get it from ur laptop to the yellow, red and white slots on ur TV?
Its not a laptop, its my dekstop. It has a wifi NIC though so its legit. (Unless you were just asking your own question.) Not sure what you mean, I don't think you can use standard A/V cables for this and they don't plug into the card anyways.
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On June 17 2009 13:03 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Yea I already have the stereo adapter (actually a couple of them). I don't wanna order it online, there has to be some place I can just pick one up. And since I already have the S-video cable I might as well get the adapter for it.
The difference between S-video and HDMI is like night and day though, definitely worth the investment.
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it'll be cheaper to buy online than at any store, even with shipping
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i'm not worried about the cost of an adapter, they are like 3-10 bucks no matter what. It's just the hassle of doing it and waiting. Just wanna pick one up and be done with it.
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On June 17 2009 15:19 CharlieMurphy wrote:
i'm not worried about the cost of an adapter, they are like 3-10 bucks no matter what. It's just the hassle of doing it and waiting. Just wanna pick one up and be done with it.
Well I dunno where you shop, but at places like Best Buy and Radio Shack, the cheapest adapter will probably run you like $30+. They charge like $20+ for cables too. You'll save a bunch of money by going to monoprice and waiting a couple days.
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HDMI cables aren't cheap T_T
Anyways HDMI is direct compatible with DVI-D, HDMI just has extra pins to carry over sound along with video, there should be no in quality also it's digital...
If you loose signal enough you just loose signal completely or get blocked up (depends on your decoder as most decoders will try to guess and deblock on video errors usually resulting is poor guesses and blocky pictures..) Adapters are cheap though mostly.
Also that is vivo to Componet cables you have which is good enough for 1080p (they are female and so you need 3 (male to male) cables to hook them up to your tv match the colors on the back...) and be able to work with your HDTV.
Vivo is just another Mini-din format, (s-video +extra pins to carry more signal and channels) really your card should be able to act as a tv tuner usually as vivo stands for video in video out which is probably the other thing that looks like a s-video and composite cables.
DVI is the best quality you can get though as it's digital instead of an analog signal.
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