Radio Shack S-video signal converter 📺 How? Why? │ ガジェット-youtube動画リンクまとめ

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CESkootchy より:

9月 2, 2022 10:24 pm

This was 100% for connecting a laptop to a TV. I used something similar along with a 3.5mm>RCA adapter through my VCR to watch those sweet sweet divx-encoded theater cams. It was passable on a late-80s TV

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Jack より:

9月 2, 2022 10:52 pm

I see adapters like this to be really obtuse but possibly cheap/easy fixes for very specific video setup issues. I’ve definitely had my fair share of weird video setups in the past that may have called for daisy-chaining stuff through VCRs and the like. I can’t think of an exact example but I can imagine for the random person coming into radio shack who’s looking for a quick fix for his video setup and this would be one of the cheaper and easily available options for them.
Analog TV isn’t really a thing like you said with very few manufacturers bothering to keep analog inputs on HD televisions so of course the application for today’s appliances aren’t really that helpful but I’m sure it helped the odd fellow here or there when they were being sold.

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uxwbill より:

9月 2, 2022 11:27 pm

Someone’s probably beaten me to saying that these are very handy for those computer video cards with built in scan converters that had only an S-video output when you needed composite. I used one of these for years that way with several GeForce and Radeon cards. At least with nVidia, I didn’t get a usable picture until I used the card’s control panel software to configure the output as composite. (A GeForce 4 and later a 6200 just gave me a bunch of bouncing dim lines until I made that change.)

I have an active Kramer branded converter than can convert to and from both types of video, at once and with separate signals (one composite to S-video, the other S-video to composite). It’s moderately better than RadioShack’s passive converter.

I suspect your first attempt might have gone better with a few well placed resistors. The luma and chroma circuits were probably trying to “drive” one another, reducing picture quality even further.

I had really hoped RadioShack would make it when they relaunched under new ownership. Alas, it just wasn’t to be. (On the other hand, I got an awful lot of fun stuff at fire sale prices when what was a *very* good RadioShack store finally closed.)

Edit: yes, very definitely beaten to it many times over. 🙂

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thevacdude より:

9月 2, 2022 11:51 pm

My 2005 15 inch PowerBook G4 had an S video input, however, to convert to DVI on the smaller 12 inch, you had to use an adaptor.
Also, they now make HDMI adaptors for things like the Playstation 2, since that was from the era when everyone used the white, red, and yellow cables, as many TV’s had them.
Thanks for the video, Kevin.

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Ost san より:

9月 3, 2022 12:18 am

Does this count as a SepTandy video?

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Gaming, music and jokes! *and a bit of cooking* より:

9月 3, 2022 12:18 am

2:06 This is heaven

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Ted McFadden より:

9月 3, 2022 12:32 am

My employer used to use these by the dozen for a large customer. Said customer had a distributed S-video system transmitting and receiving between some 50 rooms (for recording and overflow purposes). Toward the end of the system’s lifespan (decommissioned ~2014), S-video devices became very hard to come by, where even today composite video isn’t difficult to find. So, as displays/cameras/VCRs/etc. failed, they were replaced with composite video versions. Every last one of them used some version of this adapter, though sometimes with the male/female ends reversed. We probably help keep our local Radio Shack in business a bit longer. 🤣

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mattcintosh より:

9月 3, 2022 12:36 am

I present the Apple Svideo to composite video adapter PN 590-1121. https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yvf0cm1pse/images/stencil/1280×1280/products/114/391/Apple_590-1121__88990.1652711326.jpg?c=1 Basically, some 90s graphics cards output VGA and SVHS natively, and due to space concerns, it was easier to just add a adapter cable.

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coolspot18 より:

9月 3, 2022 2:09 am

These cables / adapters are pretty common on Amazon.

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Pikgears より:

9月 3, 2022 2:13 am

I had something like this because my laptop had s-video output and my tv and vcr only had composite, and I wanted to like, record video games on the tv or something.

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James Slick より:

9月 3, 2022 3:00 am

If you had to connect SOMETHING to SOMETHING (No matter HOW WEIRD it was in theory) there was an 80% chance that Radio Shack had an adapter. I worked at RS a “hundred years ago” I would look at our inventory of adapters and wonder WHO needed an “x” to “y” connection. And Lo, and behold SOMEONE would come in and ask if such a thing existed.

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Haweater より:

9月 3, 2022 3:09 am

Disappointed, I was expecting a product teardown to solve the mystery.

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William Hollinger より:

9月 3, 2022 5:01 am

My father have one and I don’t know if it works

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Apollo Sungod より:

9月 3, 2022 7:07 am

Older engineering solutions are starting to become “dark ages tech” that gets easily dismissed until you use them and have equipment that can make it useful… this is more suitable for CRT televisions imo as 2000s LCDs have flaws with image quality unless they were high end monitors.

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savagemadman より:

9月 3, 2022 11:54 am

I bought a handful of these back in 2005-ish to simplify my setup by having everything on S-Video. Messed up the picture pretty bad so I gave up on them. My next AV receiver was capable of converting everything to component so I didn’t need to think about it again.

Literally just a couple months back I dug one out from my adapter bin to try it again – resulted in a black in white picture when I went from my Laserdisc player with composite to a CRT TV on S-video (via a passive S-Video switch box). I figured something went bad in the adapter.

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Jason S より:

9月 3, 2022 3:25 pm

I seem to remember a circuit for this adapter which used 2 resistors to combine the signals.

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Jason John Uzak より:

9月 3, 2022 5:02 pm

Clean audio, Sounds good, S-video converter

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KanawhaCountyWX より:

9月 3, 2022 5:04 pm

Vizio a few years ago actually made a TV, the d24, which had composite and component inputs, but both of them required the same style breakout cables you would use with a camcorder or portable DVD player, based around a three-pole 8th-in connector. All the modern TVs I’ve seen still include standard composite inputs. Even our living room TV, a 50-in Westinghouse Roku TV, not only features standard composite inputs, but the antenna setup screen even asks if you’re still using analogue devices which require VHF channels 3 or 4.

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Fada Te より:

9月 3, 2022 6:40 pm

No teardown ?? Awwww….

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darkDancer より:

9月 3, 2022 6:45 pm

Surprisingly my TV has analog inputs, composite, component and several HDMI but no S-Video at all. I’ve found that on all of my Sony TVs. I too have this adaptor. It doesn’t do anything but pass through the signal either way although it seems to do a little but not recommended and I’m in a PAL B/G region so composite is 525i and S-Video is 625i

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