VGA to S-Video and/or composite video in one handy cable!
I was looking at some of my old posts at VideoHelp while looking at this folder here and figured this would be perfect:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/3...ters?p=1988825 VGA to composite and VGA to S-Video cables are available from a ton of places online, including reliable vendors like MonoPrice: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2 The feature, which was never common (that it was mostly on some Matrox cards a long time ago was the best guess I could find) hasn't been around in at least a decade. MonoPrice's listing is pretty much all disclaimers: Quote:
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Computer graphics output has always been a messy situation because of all the available connectors, as is video output, thus creating a desire for conversion. However its conversion is generally no more technically possible than is converting a frog into a human prince. Meritline, Amazon, Monoprice -- otherwise excellent merchants for quite a few digital media and computer products -- sell a lot of this hucksterish crap on their sites. (In their defense, I think they often do not realize the items don't work, having been hornswoggled into buying it from the low-budget Asian tech markets. After the sales have come back to bite them in the ass -- losing them customers, gaining them bad reviews, and costing them returns -- their product pages fill up with warnings and disclaimers.) I get rather tired of seeing, and fielding questions about, things like "USB to VGA adapters" or "composite to s-video adapters". No folks, it doesn't work reliably or fully. At best, the devices work with partial bandwidth, giving you a crap experience (example: intermittent video, choppiness). At worst, the devices are completely non-functional, like the example posted by Bix. Thanks for sharing, *Bix*. :) You've given me an idea for a new post -- a list of adapter devices that generally do not work. :) |
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