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S-Video to Composite Is Black and White

Written by Neil Galloway

I finally figured out a really annoying problem today. I try to connect my laptop to a television so I can watch video, play Guitar Hero, or do whatever and it always displays in black and white.

I was using a short little s-video to composite adapter that came with my MSI video card a few years ago. The picture would be decent, but it was entirely in black and white.

After talkin to some helpful personnel at Memory Express, they told me that a lot of these packaged adapters for video cards use some proprietary standards and don't work perfectly when used with other video cards. I purchased a standard S-Video to Composite adapter for $10 and now it works fine.

So if you s-video is black and white on a monitor or television, check the s-video to composite adapter first.

I also tried using my audio RCA's and a video RCA's and both work the same.

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Category: Computers

Original Post: Friday, September 12th, 2008

2 Comments

Wilma Says:
2011-12-04 12:58:08
And I was just wnodreing about that too!

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2011-12-05 02:16:48
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