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captainvi...@gmail.com
Nov 30, 2016, 11:21:28 AM11/30/16
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I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny
Ralph Mowery
Nov 30, 2016, 12:07:50 PM11/30/16
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In article <f0b17cf2-8f09-4589...@googlegroups.com>,
captainvi...@gmail.com says...
I have not tried them,but they don't cost much to try. Here is one for
$ 10.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VGA-to-TV-RCA-Composite-Converter-Adapter-S-
video-Box-for-PC-Laptop-Windows-Mac-/111867988250?
hash=item1a0bda091a:g:YLkAAOSwSHZWgz4n
They are usually from $ 10 to $ 30.
captainvi...@gmail.com says...
>
> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but
although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be
able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny
Ebay has lots of converters like that.
> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but
although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be
able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny
I have not tried them,but they don't cost much to try. Here is one for
$ 10.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VGA-to-TV-RCA-Composite-Converter-Adapter-S-
video-Box-for-PC-Laptop-Windows-Mac-/111867988250?
hash=item1a0bda091a:g:YLkAAOSwSHZWgz4n
They are usually from $ 10 to $ 30.
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Michael A. Terrell
Nov 30, 2016, 9:22:28 PM11/30/16
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whit3rd wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:21:28 AM UTC-8, captainvi...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter...
>
> The laptop has to supply sync-on-green for a simple adapter to work. Can you interrogate
> the video output mode, or change it, to make interlaced 60 Hz video with sync-on-green?
>
> More flexible (expensive) adapters actually include frame buffers, and require a power supply.
Used Extron scan converters show up on Ebay for reasonable prices.
VGA to S-Video or composite are common models. There is a steady stream
of older hardware being pulled out during upgrades to digital and mixed
video systems.
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Never piss off an Engineer!
They don't get mad.
They don't get even.
They go for over unity! ;-)
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:21:28 AM UTC-8, captainvi...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter...
>
> The laptop has to supply sync-on-green for a simple adapter to work. Can you interrogate
> the video output mode, or change it, to make interlaced 60 Hz video with sync-on-green?
>
> More flexible (expensive) adapters actually include frame buffers, and require a power supply.
Used Extron scan converters show up on Ebay for reasonable prices.
VGA to S-Video or composite are common models. There is a steady stream
of older hardware being pulled out during upgrades to digital and mixed
video systems.
--
Never piss off an Engineer!
They don't get mad.
They don't get even.
They go for over unity! ;-)
Pat
Dec 1, 2016, 7:24:36 AM12/1/16
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Never piss off an Engineer!
>
>They don't get mad.
>
>They don't get even.
>
>They go for over unity! ;-)
Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.
<mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Never piss off an Engineer!
>
>They don't get mad.
>
>They don't get even.
>
>They go for over unity! ;-)
Thanks,
Pat
Michael A. Terrell
Dec 1, 2016, 8:35:18 AM12/1/16
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captainvi...@gmail.com
Dec 1, 2016, 8:52:53 AM12/1/16
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On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:21:28 AM UTC-5, captainvi...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny
I thought "perpetual motion" was a theoretical quantity, kind of like the square root of -1. Lenny
> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny
Pat
Dec 1, 2016, 8:53:29 AM12/1/16
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:35:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
a quick Google search and found many references to it so clearly the
problem is my memory (or lack thereof).
<mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Pat wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
>> <mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Never piss off an Engineer!
>>>
>>> They don't get mad.
>>>
>>> They don't get even.
>>>
>>> They go for over unity! ;-)
>>
>> Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.
>
>Over unity = Perpetual Motion = unending revenge. ;-)
Thanks. I either never knew or forgot the phrase "over unity". I did
>Pat wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
>> <mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Never piss off an Engineer!
>>>
>>> They don't get mad.
>>>
>>> They don't get even.
>>>
>>> They go for over unity! ;-)
>>
>> Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.
>
>Over unity = Perpetual Motion = unending revenge. ;-)
a quick Google search and found many references to it so clearly the
problem is my memory (or lack thereof).
Michael A. Terrell
Dec 1, 2016, 10:05:18 PM12/1/16
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