Hooking Computer to TV RCA 52' Projection TV

[Spidah]

I have all the connections made properly and have extended my desktop to Monitor #2 And picture comes in but only black and white!!

I wonder about the colour if anyone knows anuthing please advise!

 

[Spidah]

PS

The reason Is so I can watch movies straight from Comp to TV!

 

[MikeReiner]

First off, you made this post like half an hour ago... you have to give threads time..

second off, what are you using to connect to your TV? S-Video? what video card do you have? do you have the latest drivers?

 

[Spidah]

Ok Mike sorry for sounding short but I has posted one last week!1
Anyways i have an S-video /rca cable combo running from comp to TV/Surround sound!

I am really computer illiterate!!

 

[Spidah]

I dont know about what kind of video card is therre a wat to find out?

And whats a driver?

 

[G35x]

To find out your video card just rigt clock on ur desktop...properties...and settings...and it should show the type of video card you have

 

[Spidah]

Video card is radeon x700

 

[joe pic]

your video card is alright, does your video card have an s-video port on the back of it? nvm, it should. maybe you're on the wrong source on your TV. make sure it's set to S-Video. I have a 52' TV as well, but no TVO on my card, so i cannot do it. upgrade your drivers. go to www.ati.com and click on drivers, and your card, then download the latest one. try that and hopefully it's a solution

 

[Spidah]

Ok I went and downloaded and installed ati_5270_beta.exe but still having same problem of no colour on TV screen.

 

[root]

the problem is (most likely) in your S video - RCA conversion cable.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video

Svideo carries two signals, colour and luminessance, one should be filtered from the other when transformed into composite, a cheap adapter will have cheap parts and not work properly.

Also, because the colour is encoded, it is encoded to a standard, you may find that you need to change the video settings between NTSC and Pal... (try hooking an NTSC only video to a PAL only TV, I have the same problem with my old (american) SNES and my new (PAL only ) TV...

Some devices are just not compatable though!
(I've seen this with an ATI card and an epson projector)

if it's a decent TV I'd assume that it has an S-video socket, and an RCA socket, I'd suggest either buying an S-video lead to connect your computer to TV,

if you have a RCA socket on the computer then use the RCA sockets on the TV...
and forget about the converter!