Screwed up TV

[Sharky]

I bought a S-Video to SCART adapter to take the image from my PCs TV out to my TV and unless I turn the colour all the way down in the TV settings, the colour for the image shown on the TV aren't right.

A slight workaround has been to crank up the saturation level in the nVidia control panel, and have the TV set to where it would normally be nearly black and white, but this isn't ideal because unless the TV is set to show no colour whatsoever, the problem still exists.

Any ideas?







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Thanks.

PS.: Changing from NTSC to I/PAL didn't really help, and tried different resolutions, including the supposed standard 720x576.

[Spartan Erik]

Hmm.. well, how old is your TV?

Does it display normal cable/over the air broadcasts just fine? Does the blurring occur only with the computer as the input?

[Sharky]

It's a Philips 28" widescreen, no more than... about 5 years at most. Normal TV is fine, as are the other things plugged in. Definately something to do with the PC or the s-video to scart adapter.

[componentwarehouse]

Hmmm - I would say its something to do with the S-Video to SCART, where did you buy it from? There arent many settings on the computer that would cause that (well, they could, but you would know you'd set them). Does the standard computer monitor work fine through the secondary display port (on the graphics card)?

Alex

[Sharky]

Y'know I really can't remember where I got it from. Which suggests it was probably eBay! TV is connected to dedicated TV out port on the GC, but yes, the monitor works perfectly fine.

I have yet to see a S-Video to scart adapter that works. A friend of mine has one that only outputs B&W to the TV! I think I read somewhere that was something to do with ATi, but I really don't know.

Edit:
Laptop also exhibits the same behaviour. I guess it's a good job it wasn't an expensive cable!

[Sharky]

Ok, I asked around, and turns out whilst Ext1 has one 'mode' and what looks to be better picture quality, Ext2 has two modes, RGB and SVIDEO. Switching from the Ext2 channel to SVHS2 means problem solved :D