DVI to S-Video adaptor and Calibration

Except for one step, the brightness (right adjustment in advance calibration) is all the way down when trying to calibrate my JVC Broadcast CRT. This makes the apple disappear and the color adjustment impossible. Please advise.
jmf

What are you going to be viewing on the JVC broadcast monitor? Your desktop, or did you plan on using it for video editing on your Mac?
-DH

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I need a DVI to RCA video adaptor that works!

I need to buy a DVI to RCA composite video adaptor for a Powerbook G4 15 inch.
I purchased one from the local Apple Store a few weeks back, and all I get from it is a non-synchronous/grey-squiggly image.
I have been told that the current new adaptor (Apple DVI to Video Adapter) only works with Macbooks with the Intel processor. Is that true?
Where can I get one that works???
Message was edited by: videohockey

The specifications here:
http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/PowerBookG4_15-inch_1_67-15GHz.html
Under Video accessories say that an "S-video to composite adapter" and "DVI to VGA adapter" were included if you bought it new. NTSC Composite Video is the one that uses the RCA jack, and will show up on a TV set or a VCR. It looks like someone at the Apple store was trying too hard. Ask for the 922-3421 (black) or 922-4200 (ice) described and pictured in this document:
33001- Monitor and Display Adapter Table
Note that the adapter pictured has a Female RCA jack, and you may need a male-to-male patch cord to complete the circuit to the TV or VCR.
If what you really want is 15-pin VGA, there are some other things to try, depending on what your display/record device is, and what its capabilities are.
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Mini-DVI to S-video adapter and no colour on TV screen

I just purchased a mini-DVI to S-video adapter for my MacBook. I want to connect it to my TV through my DVD/Video player.
I do get a nice picture on the TV and I can manage it in the screen settings panel, BUT the TV-screen doesn't show any colour, just black and white. Why?
I've tried several settings in the Preferences panel, but no luck. What to do?

The cable is brand new and I've checked it with a mulitmeter. It's OK.
I've also heard that this is a fairly common problem with S-video and I got a tip to try the composite video instead. It worked beautifully, so now I've got nice and crisp video in full colour on my TV!

Mini DVI - DVI to DVI - S-video adaptors

I want to connect my new Macbook with an older TV with SCART input.
I guessed a Mini-DVI<->DVI hooked up to a DVI<->S-video adaptor, finally connecting a s-video to Scart cable, would solve this.
I bought the two first adaptors from Apple, but the DVI:s wont fit!? They seem to be right looking at them, since one of them is male and the other one is female...
Please help.
Regards,
Ann & Daniel
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Thanks!
Anyone looking for Mini-DVI<->DVI or DIV<->Video adaptors?
/Daniel

DVI To Video Adaptor questions

Hello there,
I just purchased the DVI to Video Adaptor and received it in the mail today. I am trying to figure out what is required to hook it up to the tv and as I understand I need an RCA adaptor to connect from the headphone input but I am not sure what cable to get for video. I am not sure if I should get an s-video cable or what cable I should get for the yellow adaptor on the connector. The set up is a little weird since it is in my dorm room so if you could let me know if my proposed set up would work that would be great.
For sound I was going to purchase a 50ft 3.5 mm headphone extension (http://tinyurl.com/yjyexq7), and then connecting an RCA adaptor from that to the TV (http://tinyurl.com/yjhgn5j). If you could help me with any ideas about what to do with the video and which option you feel is best that would be great.
Thanks!

What kind of audio and video inputs does your TV have? If you only have composite video (yellow RCA jack) and left/right audio RCA jacks, you only need one RCA to RCA composite video cable of proper length for the picture, plus the audio cable from the MBP headphone jack to the TV audio inputs.
If your TV has an S-Video input, buy an S-video to S-video cable instead of the composite cable. The quality is slightly better with S-Video.
The picture with this setup is pretty low-fi by today's standards. I also assume you bought the DVI to composite+S-video adapter.
If you have a flat panel TV with DVI, HDMI, or SVGA inputs, use one of those.

Apple DVI to VGA out adaptor

Hi All,
I got an Apple DVI to VGA out adaptor and I have a Radeon 9000 video card with ADC and DVI output, the thing is that when I plug that in, it sees it as a VGA output, but when I connected the other end to an input on my tv, it displays nothing and when I click DETECT DISPLAY, it closes the tv connection and I am back to one display..
Now I also have a Radeoan 7000 PCI card with VGA, DVI and S-Video out and when I connect that same adaptor, it now says Televison and works as it should... Now my question is the DVI output is different on each card or is it PCI and AGP slot acts differently or do I just have a bad DVI output???
thanks and I aplologize if this is NOT the forum for this question...
Johnny

The DVI connection should work, but some displays with multiple input have trouble after the display or computer sleep. I think the display sees no signal on the computer port so goes to checks the other port. When the computer wakes, the display may be switched to the wrong port. The computer, may, then, think there is nothing connected, and turn off the video. The display comes back to the correct port, but sees no signal, and switches ports before the computer has a chance to start the video. A properly designed display would send connected signals on the DVI port while it's looking at the VGA port, but some models never recover properly from sleep with certain computers.

ATI dvi to component video adapter?

I have an older HDTV that only has component video inputs (for HD signals anyway). The macbook pro has an ATI graphics processor, so I took a chance and ordered the ATI dvi to component video adapter:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=replaylink-20&camp= 1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00068NSZA
I know it doesn't work with the old ati single-link dvi macs, has anyone tried it with the new x1600 based macs?

I have the same problem. I have found out that RGB output from computers is actually RGBHV, which includes vertical and horizontal sync signals. Therefore conversion from Macbook Pro DVI or RGB to plasma component (YPrPb) requires more than just a simple converter like ATI DVI to Component video adaptor, unless Apple can output component video from the video card (that's theoretically possible, but it depends on how Apple integrated the chipset into the motherboard, according to ATI).
The alternative is to use a processor to convert the signal. Key Digital produce a signal transcoder, KT-VTCA3. http://www.keydigital.com/ProductDetail.aspx?categorycode=500&itemno=KDVTCA3&pro ductname=Video%20and%20Control%20Adapters. I have ordered one of these and believe it will work, in lieu of Apple providing a means for outputting component video directly from the Macbook Pro.
This is also available from a seller in UK over ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Key-Digital-ClearColor3-VGA-To-Component-TRANSCODER_W0QQit emZ9700214677QQcategoryZ22610QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.

Mini DVI to S-Video B&W only!!

I bought a Mini DVI to S-Video adapter and a S-video to RCA cable to hook my MacBook up to my TV, but when I plug it in I can only see it in Black and White. I checked System Prefs>Displays and tried out several different profiles, to no avail. FWIW the audio seems to be fine.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

In my experience when you try to connect an s-video source to a TV you need the TV to be able to accept s-video signals or it does come out black and white.
One of my televisions has front inputs which consist of one s-video plus the standard three phonos. If i dont tell the tv its an s-video cable the image is black and white.I had the same kinda thing with an older tv when using a scart convertor which had s-video input. I had to use the correct scart socket which was the one that supported s-video and then tell the tv it was s-video by switching to AV2/S instead of just AV2.

DVI to S-Video not full screen!

I recently bought an Apple DVI to S-Video adapter and hooked it up to my 60" Hitachi 60SDX88AB rear projection TV. The picture looks fine, colorwise and all, but the picture does not take up the whole screen- there are 2 inch black bars on 3 sides of the screen. I played with it for an hour with no avail- changing the resolution only changed the aspect ratio within that same area, and checking "overscan" under Display Preferences made the picture take up more than the whole screen, cutting off, again, a couple inches on all sides.
I switched this setup to my 20" LCD TV in my bedroom thinking it may just be the monitor, but the same thing occurred, this time with bars on all 4 sides of the screen. How can I fix this?

No, unfortunately it doesn't. My only options with this older model are s-video, composite, and component. I don't have a DVI to component converter, and hooking it up with composite gives me the same issues.

Apple DVI to Video Adaptor - The two available and which to buy...

Hi there,
I have a Mac Mini and i'm interested in getting a Apple DVI to Video adaptor.
I have noticed there are two available, one of which is PAL.
Does this mean that on the other one, it is NTSC, and only that? and that the PAL one is only PAL?
Since im in the UK, my TV is PAL.
Assistance is greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
James

That is correct. The adapter triggers the Mac to either put out 50Hz PAL compatible video or 60Hz NTSC compatilble video. You can override this behavior, but only with a third-party application like DisplayConfigX or SwitchRes X. You might as well just get the PAL one in your case.

DVI to video adaptor question

I am new the Apple world but am thinking of buying a Mac mini as a music and photo server. I will use it mainly via a TV with the remote control and Front Row. I am in the UK and have a CRT Panasonic (28" wide) with SCART connections. I also have a Sony home cinema amp which is a couple of years old. I have read that screen resolution and quality is poor when using the DVI to video adaptor but am wondering what people's experience is when using it for Front Row only? I am hoping to find a remote control solution to use the Mac through my Windows laptop for normal Mac computing..

I've been thinking of MacMini for the same purpose and have been testing s-video output on my PowerBook G4 1.67.
Using the resolution 1024x576 gives anamorphic widescreen image to my sony 28" tube TV and I was able to browse internet and write forum entries without much trouble from 2 meter distance (around 7 ft).
Ofcourse the image is not as sharp as you'd get with a LCD, but it's a lot better than one might think. There was a checkbox saying "optimize for video" or something which seemed to sharpen the image a little. It helped getting smaller text readable.
Anyway, after seeing frontrow on a LCD display and now PowerBook's 1024x576 on a TV screen (I don't have front row on the PB), I'm sure It's more than good for that application.
Actually I didn't really find much difference between watching DVD from a DVD player or from the powerbook, when they were both connected with s-video
Powerbook G4 1.67 Combo Mac OS X (10.4.2)

DVI to Video Adaptor not reliable.

I received my DVI to Video Adaptor (s-video and composite) today. The first boot up was to no video, a couple restarts later and the login screen was up. I used the mini for a couple hours with the composite video and my tv and then turned it off. I came back later to again no video and after a few more power cycles... needless to say I have the mini hooked back up to a VGA display.
Has anyone had any problems with this adaptor? Any advice as to how to get it to reliably display video?
Thanks.

Does the image seem to triplicate across the screen and jump around with all kinds of distortions? If so it appears you may have the same problem many iBook users were having...
squeeb, "Composit/S-video output adapter Will not work", 08:21am Mar 5, 2004 CDT
You can take the time to read through all those posts, but the news isn't good I'm afraid. It's something to do with the mac thinking the TV is a VGA monitor, so sends out the wrong signal (nobody really knows, Apple never acknowledged the problem). The only person to have fixed it had to have his logic board replaced!
That was an iBook though, this may be different to your problem (you hope).
I certainly hope! I was planning to get a mac mini soon to setup a kind of media center. I was one of the unlucky ones with the iBook problem, so this is very bad news if the Mac minis are having the same problem!
Good luck! Keep us posted if you make any progress.

DVI to s-video/ composite Video Adaptors- diff b/w 2 Apple products?

I am trying to get information regarding the difference between 2
Apple display accessories.
- Apple PAL DVI to Video Adaptor -Apple part number MA026ZM/A
- Apple DVI to Video Adaptor -Apple part number M9267G/A
The second is not just an NTSC version of the first, in that it
supports both PAL and NTSC - and apparently the Pin outs are
different for both. I am trying to work out which will give a better
result for PAL video output (interlace timings etc). Kbase articles
just say that M9267G/A supports both NTSC and PAL and that MA026ZM/A
supports PAL. It seems strange that the PAL item exists if the other
adaptor supports PAL also ? Apple Australia say they don't know.
thoughts ? thanks in advance

Apple's video adapters have a ROM chip inside them with EDID data contained within the ROM. That is one thing that will definitely be different between the two. The NTSC and PAL version (M9267G/A) gives priority to NTSC. This could cause problems in a PAL country. If you hooked a PAL TV up using this adapter, you might get a rolling (non-synced) screen and you'd have no good way to recover since the image on the screen would be unusable.
I don't think one adapter would have any advantage over the other in terms of PAL picture quality. It would just be a question of compatibility as outlined above. That's my best guess.

Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter and Mac mini (2009)

Can anyone tell me whether the Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter listed here:
http://store.apple.com/ca/product/M9319G/A
works with the latest Mac mini (early 2009)?
If it does not what other solutions are there to connect to composite, component or s-video?

KC from Ann Arbor, MI had this to say as a review on the page to which you have linked;
10-May-2009
I bought a Mac Mini (May 2009) and this Mini-DVI to Video adapter with plans to use it to send an S-video signal to an analog TV. Though the sales staff at the Apple store said it should work, it does not. The graphics card apparently should support it, and it may be addressed with a future driver update, but as of now this does not work. I have used a mini-DVI to VGA adapter and monitor to verify that the port is working, and also verified that the S-video cable and TV input work. There are third party VGA to S-video/RCA adapters available so I plan to use one of those for my purposes. This is probably a 5-star product when used with the right Mac; however, Apple should have made it clear that having a mini-DVI port on your Mac is necessary but not sufficient for this to work - hence the 3 stars.

I am attempting to plug my mac into my tv. I am using the mini dvi to s video adapter. When I plug it in, the display goes all wonky and becomes stretched and enlarged.

When I attempt to connect my mac to the monitor using a mini dvi to s video adapter the display becomes enlarged and stretched. I cannot seem to fix this using the system preferences or the quick keys that allow you to zoom in on the display. Any suggestions?

I am using MAC OSx 10.5.8 (9L31a) as my operation system. The TV says "No signal. Check connected device's power, cable connection and source selection." Seems to me that that goes in hand with what the Samsung tech said about the Mac needing to be forces to use the external display. But how do I do that?

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