Hey everyone,
I was having a sort out of my cables box and came across one I didn't recognise, which is strange for me. It definitely came with my graphics card, it plugs straight into it, it has AV stlye ports on the other end, under the green is "Y", under the blue "Pb/Comp" and under the red "Pr".
Here are a couple of pics, not the best quality, but it might help.
Thanks for any info.
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Can anyone identify this cable?
Seems weird to me that it only has 6 pins. Usually they have 7 pins, or look like this:
" Looks like an S-Video In plug to me Edit: Missed that the second picture was of the other end. S-Video to Component. "@wolf_blitzer85 said:
" An s-video to component adapter is what it looks like to me. "@SpikeSpiegel said:
" Looks like an s-video to component cable. That's an odd combination.... "@ch13696 said:
" It's an S-video to Component plug-in. Before video cards had HDMI or Mini HDMI built into their cards, they used these adapters to give people the advantage to use their HDTV's. "I'm getting the impression it's an S-video to Component cable.
" @zonerover said:What gave you that impression? I can't really see anything pointing toward it." Looks like an S-Video In plug to me Edit: Missed that the second picture was of the other end. S-Video to Component. "@wolf_blitzer85 said:" An s-video to component adapter is what it looks like to me. "@SpikeSpiegel said:" Looks like an s-video to component cable. That's an odd combination.... "@ch13696 said:" It's an S-video to Component plug-in. Before video cards had HDMI or Mini HDMI built into their cards, they used these adapters to give people the advantage to use their HDTV's. "I'm getting the impression it's an S-video to Component cable. "
It looks like a custom port for a video card so that you can output component video. It's normally pretty useless though.
I'm pretty sure that's for a Sega Master System or Genesis. Let me check.
Scratch that, I'm coulourblind. Didn't see that it was component video.
PC to TV cable for older graphics cards. S-Video out, Component In. I have one of these that came with my old nvidia 7600GS 512MB AGP card. However, this cable is only for graphics cards. The s-video end has an extra prong where extra color signals go through to achieve the higher quality component signal on the other side. If you tried using this on something like a VCR, it would not fit since it has the extra prong, nor will it produce a better component signal. Meaning: this does not universally upconvert lower quality s-video into higher quality component. Most graphics cards have a middle output which is an S-video out which this cable hooks into. Again, that output can only produce a component signal by using this cable. You can use a regular s-video cable as well aside from this one with the graphics card if your TV only has s-video and no component inputs.
" @nintendoeats said:And all the Atari Systems and the Master System and the Vectrex and the Colecovision and the Intellivision etc etc..." @ch13696: Jeez, that could be anything. Atari through Genesis. "Sega Genesis sir. "
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