does this cable exist and where?

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i was looking around for a crimper a few min ago and i found this sites that sells a buncha cabling... i noticed it sold a cable adapter to change vga to bnc... i dont know what that is but it gave me an idea

is there such a cable that changes vga signal into coax, or composite stuff or anyform that can be input onto a tv screen?... if so, is it effective?... if so, where can i buy one and how much?... also, whats the name of this type of cable?

thanks
 
If you want to go vga-out to tv why not just get a tv card or some sort of breakout box? :confused:
 
i just wanna keep things simple, like one cable that costs maybe $10 bucks or something
 
I think it requires a little more than a cable, the vga->tv adapters ive seen have a converter box thing that im sure does more than connect wires.
 
ok... then my next choice would be to use an s-video to composite cable... i have that... but i cant seem to get it to work

is there any specific instructions/procedures to do this?... i tried this a long time ago and if i can remember properly, i had a SiS 315mx video card with a s-video out and i bought a cable that changes s-video to composite (yellow)... i hooked it up to the tv and i got to the part with win xp loading but after that, i cant see the welcome screen... however, this may not have worked probably because at that time i used an old tv with only coax as an input so i hadda hook it up to a vcr that was probably broken

but NOW i got a new tv with composite and the red and white jacks... before i move my computer to try it out, is there any specific things i have to cover?

thanks
 
I have done that before (s-video to RCA/composite adapter to a TV).

It does depend on your display drivers to properly implement, so you won't be able to do this installing WinXP. You basically need to set up Windows while it's plugged into a CRT AND the TV (or VCR, or something on the s-video out) and set up the multi-monitor environment to 'clone' to the second monitor (using the s-video port as the 'second monitor').

Least, that's how you had to do it back when I was playing around with this. Don't even have a TV in the house now, so don't have any way of testing the current cards using this idea (last one I used was an ATI Rage Pro!)
 
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VGA to BNC is pointless for what you want because the BNC connectors simply break out Red/red return, Green/green return, Blue/blue return, Vsync/ground and Hsync/ground from the HD15 connector with no changes. You would only use one of those to connect a card to a monitor with BNC inputs, not to a TV with component input.
 
dderidex said:
I have done that before (s-video to RCA/composite adapter to a TV).

It does depend on your display drivers to properly implement, so you won't be able to do this installing WinXP. You basically need to set up Windows while it's plugged into a CRT AND the TV (or VCR, or something on the s-video out) and set up the multi-monitor environment to 'clone' to the second monitor (using the s-video port as the 'second monitor').

Least, that's how you had to do it back when I was playing around with this. Don't even have a TV in the house now, so don't have any way of testing the current cards using this idea (last one I used was an ATI Rage Pro!)
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so you're saying i have to set the video card up with the monitor first, and then set it to dual display, and then plug in the s-video cable and to the tv composite?

what i plan to do right now is, i have a buncha old computer parts im about to put together... it has everything i need... i will put it together with a regular monitor, install winXP and then take off the monitor and plug in the tv with the svideo/composite cable.... is there anything im missing?

thanks
 
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