I'm going to be buying either a hauppauge 150 or the 500mce soon. My cheap as tv has no s-video connections, only the composite (yellow, white, red) connections. I need to buy a cable to connect my PC to my TV.
So:
- Does component work on composite plugins? (my VIVO cable connector thingy has yellow, red, blue, green, and s-video but no white connection??)
- if so, what colors match up (yel/red/white -> rgb)?
Basically I'm just wondering if I need to buy component cables for my VIVO cable or buy a composite extension cable from my comp to my tv.
Getting confused with all these connections :S
Helado
05-03-2007, 04:51 PM
The Yellow is the Composite Video Cable. The Red/Green/Blue is Component.
The Red and White on a composite connector is for audio. Get a 1/8" phono to RCA 'Y' cable and connect your soundcard out to the Composite cable.
i think i have one. it's the same as this, but longer and has white/red colored ends for the plug-ins:
http://www.action-electronics.com/grc/ces13120.jpg
How exactly does everything hook up?
Helado
05-03-2007, 05:56 PM
What you want is one of these:
http://www.ramelectronics.net/assets/images/180-3-5S-RCAX2.jpg
Small end goes into sound card. Then hook the red/white from your composite cable to the cable above. Then hook the yellow to the output yellow on your VIVO connector.
So essentially,
Connect
Computer soundcard
to Y cable
http://www.ramelectronics.net/assets/images/180-3-5S-RCAX2.jpg
along with the yellow from your video card vivo block to
http://www.darkplanets.co.uk/images/shop/AV-Composite-Cable.gif
to TV
awesome. i also noticed the hauppauge card had some composite inputs. i guess i would need to plug my ps2 into that to play it without switching around cables? thanks for the help :sex:
p.s. this is the best quality without buying a hdtv right? don't want it to be all grainy
Helado
05-03-2007, 09:58 PM
Quality is going to go in order from best to worst:
Component/HDMI
S-Video
Composite
You don't necessarily need an hdtv to use component, although yes, for the most part you won't notice a significant jump without an hdtv. It comes down to resolution. Your TV over composite does 480i. You standard newer tube tv can probably do 480p, which gives you a slight boost. The bigger jumps are going to be to 720p and 1080i. I think 1080i is something like 1920x1080 resolution. For all of the latter, you'll need component or hdmi to really take advantage of the resolution switch. I think the max of s-video is 800x600 (but don't quote me on that).
As far as plugging in your ps2, you'd probably be better off going through your television. Unless you wanted to record your ps2 games or play them on your computer monitor, you'll probably lose quality when going through your computer and back out to the TV.