S-Video to Composite; Is this possible?

Jerry Scaduto

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Hello. We have a Samuari Showdown DLX machine that our monitor died. We bought the Best Buy Special DYNEX brand 55" LCD (with only HDMI and Composite inputs) as the replacement. The Game spits out an S-video signal. The only way we were able to get it working was to use an RF converter and bring the signal into channel 3. It has seriously downgraded the image quality.

Does anyone know if there is a better way of getting my S-VIDEO signal into the LCD TV without having to use an RF converter? I'd like a simple straight S-VIDEO TO COMPOSITE connector. I know they make a COMPOSITE to S-VIDEO (such as if your game only spit out composite and your monitor only accepts S-Video.

Thanks!!!
 
Those adapters work both ways. I know that RadioShack sells one that can go from composite to S-Video or S-Video to composite, just depends which way you hook it up.

Brian.
 
Those adapters work both ways. I know that RadioShack sells one that can go from composite to S-Video or S-Video to composite, just depends which way you hook it up.

I can confirm this, I used to use one to connect my laptop (s-video) to my tv (composite), before the days of cheap HDMI.
 
Easy. You don't even need to buy an adapter - just cut one end off an S-video cable, solder the chroma and luma lines together into the center pin of an RCA plug, and the ground to the shield.

-Ian
 
Thanks again guys. It worked, but there is a bit of video noise. I think it's due to the hack job I did on the make shift harness I made. I am guessing if I shorten the harness I built and maybe install some RF eliminators around the wires that may help.
 
thanks. I needed to know for sure before I spend the $20 bucks to order one and find out it does not work.
$20 bucks?? I am unsure why you didn't buy a suitable TV for the game in the first place, a much better quality picture would have been achieved.

RetroHacker said:
Easy. You don't even need to buy an adapter - just cut one end off an S-video cable, solder the chroma and luma lines together into the center pin of an RCA plug, and the ground to the shield.
In my experience connecting a small capacitor on the chroma (eg 470pf) gives a slightly better result.
 
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