600m TV Out... How does it work?

Hey, my friend sold me his old 600m and I just bought a new TV with a S-TV jack. I was wondering how that works... Do I just plug it in and the screen will show up on the tv? Or does it only work with the DVD player? Any input is appreciated! Thanks.

 

So both the graphics card and tv have an s-video port? Are they both the same? Some S-Videos are 4 pin and others are 7 pin. If they're both 4 pin then when you plug it in (and set the tv to the correct input channel) it should display automatically, or you may need to go into display properties and enable it manually.

Grand Admiral

 

Standard S-Video only use 4 lines, the extra 3 pins (in 7 pin connector) are used for other stuff like S/PDIF audio. Any 4 pin connector will work for video.

You can also use a S-Video to composite converter to input video using TV’s composite input .

 

Are you sure? I tried a four pin s-video on both a NVIDIA and an ATI 7-pin out and they both came out in black and white. And why then are there 7-pin to 4-pin adapters? I think the newer NVIDIA drivers have s-video problems, My desktop was running s-video 4-pin through a 4-pin to composite adapter fine for its current drivers but not when i put the newer ones on there, came out in black and white.

Grand Admiral

 

The pins determine quality: 7-pin S-Video has higher quality output than 4-pin S-Video. Sometimes, the 7-pins are reduced to 4-pins by shorting a few pins via an adapter, for correct color information to be transferred to an output device that uses only 4-pins!

 

Ah, thanks for that! Any ideas about the NVIDIA problem i mentioned?

Grand Admiral