Mini-DVI to s-video: black bar on left side

Hi,
When outputting video through "the mini-DVI to s-video adapter" i have a black bar on the left side of my television.
It seems like the 1024*768 resolution is not able to completely fit the 4:3 area of my television (the image is to small).
any ideas?
thanks!

I'm absolutely sure everything is displaying and that the image is not deformed in any way.
So my conclusion is that the image is just smaller (in every dimension) than it should be and than it was before.
I will try a lower resolution later today.
thanks for your help and interest!

Similar Messages

  • 42ZV625D has a black vertical bar at left side when used as monitor

    My 42ZV625D LCD TV displays a black bar at left side of the screen when used as monitor at resolution 1366 x 768. When I adjust the position of the screen a grey overlay appears at the opposite side. Can someone help me with this?

    Hi there
    If you like you can do a System restore to a previously known good state.
    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=in&lc=en&docname=c03327545
    Alternatively try uninstalling current graphic driver from Display adapters section in Device Manager & reinstalling the latest Graphic driver from your HP support page.
    Then restart the system, check.
    Regards
    Visruth
    ++Please click KUDOS / White thumb to say thanks
    ++Please click ACCEPT AS SOLUTION to help others, find this solution faster
    **I'm a Volunteer, I do not work for HP**

  • Mini DVI to S-video display problem

    I connect my macbook to a plasma TV using mini DVI to S-video adapter so I can give keynote presentations. All of a sudden, having not changed any settings, the plasma display went to black & white while my macbook's display remains in color. I have checked with two different s-video cables and with another TV, as well as trying to change the color display in my system preferences, but after several hours have given up. Anyone else have this problem or have any thoughts on how to alleviate it? Thanks
    Hungus

    A wire may have broken inside the mini DVI to S-video adapter. S-video uses one wire for the brightness, and one for the color information. If the color wire breaks you will get a black and white picture. Until Apple replaces the adapter, you could use the composite video output, but the picture will not be as sharp.

  • 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 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.

  • Conecting Mini DVI to HDMI Video Cable with my mac book pro

    Hi. I just bought Mini DVI to HDMI Video Cable to connect my mac book pro to my HD TV. I connected the cables and put my TV on HDMI input. On the TV it appears the Snow Leopard Background but I can't see my desktop or the icons. What should I do to view my mac book pro on the Tv? Thanks!

    Hi y3p3v3,
    On the TV it appears the Snow Leopard Background but I can't see my desktop or the icons. What should I do to view my mac book pro on the Tv? Thanks!
    You've got it connected, and you're viewing it already! Connect it up again, and try dragging a window either to the left, or right, off your built-in screen. You'll find that it appears on your TV!
    What you're doing is running the computer in "extended desktop" mode. That means that your TV screen is available to put things on, but won't show your menu bar, dock, or icons. Those remain on the "primary screen" which remains your MBP's built-in display.
    When the TV is plugged in, go to System Preferences --> Displays
    The main System Preferences window will remain on your MBP's screen, but a second one should appear on the TV as well. If you go to the one on your MBP's screen, and click the "Arrangement" tab, you'll see two screens shown in the diagram. One will have a menubar. That's your MBPs screen. You can drag the menubar to the other screen to change the primary screen to the TV.
    OR, you can just click "Mirror Displays" and your TV will show the exact same picture as your MBP display. This option is the simplest and will accomplish what you want, I think.
    If you have any other questions, or if you need any clarification, feel free to ask!
    --Travis

  • 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?

  • Mini dvi to Component Video adapter !

    Help !
    Where Can I Find "mini dvi to Component Video adapter" ?
    Help !

    "there is no such thing in apple store"
    I MAID,
    Begging your pardon, but I just tried the above linked Search Results, and what you seek is apparently on the list, as the search was performed exactly as you specified. You can read the description of the various items for sale and tell us what is different about the one that you need. That way we can perform a new search for you, or, in the alternative, you can search for yourself. If the Apple Store doesn't have what you want, search CompUSA.

  • Mini DVI to S-video and composite giving complete distorted output!!

    I tried to hook up my 20" Sony Trinitron either through S-video or composite to the powerbook without any success. I got completely distorted picutre. I have tried all the video resolution setting that is available on the Displays reference window with the same result. Does anybody out there run into this problem at all.

    I have a 12" PowerBook 1.5ghz and had the same problem with garbled video today. When I plugged in the Mini-DVI > Composite/S-Video adapter the PowerBook would consistently think it was attached to an ordinary VGA monitor, and could not sync with the television. This caused a B&W, warped, split in half picture.
    I took the adapter back to the Apple store, plugged it into one of their demo units, and saw it behaved the same way. They gave me a replacement and everything has been fine since.
    QS2002, 1.4ghz, 1gb, GeForce 4 Ti4600, SATA; 12" PB 1.5ghz, 512mb   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

  • Mini-DVI to S-Video resolution

    I've plugged my Mini-DVI to S-Video adapter into the MacBook, but there is only limited selection of resolutions available in the NTSC/PAL preference pane. My Mac mini S-Video adapter has options for 16:9 output, but the MacBook only lists the following (none are 16:9 resolutions):
    640 x 480
    720 x 480
    720 x 576
    800 x 600
    1024 x 768
    Any ideas how I can get the MacBook to output 16:9 widescreen via the S-Video adapter?
    Thanks very much, Rich

    Thanks namke, had no idea that rectangular pixels were employed to achieve widescreen on a TV - you learn something new everyday!
    I wondered what other MacBook users get when they plug in the mini dvi to s-video adpater because 16:9 resolution is an option when a DVI adapter is plugged into my Mac mini (e.g. 1024 x 576), but not my MacBook.

  • Mini-DVI to S-Video Adapter doesn't work

    Hi, I am using the Mini-DVI to S-Video adapter from apple to connect my macbook to the TV. But the only thing I get is a grey flickering picture on my TV. When I click on the monitor-button I can see that my macbook detects only a monitor (but not a TV) in addition to the macbook-LCD-display. I tried all different resolutions, but needless to say it doesn't work.
    Can the adapter be broken, or is there a problem with the macbook?
    Macbook white 2 GHz Intel Core Duo 1GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    my macbook detects only a monitor (but not a TV) in addition to the macbook-LCD-display
    If you connect the Mini-DVI to S-Video adapter, the monitor button on the menubar should show resolutions for Color LCD in one section and NTSC/PAL in the other.
    A grey flickering picture is indicative of picking the wrong standard-PAL vs. NTSC.

  • Mini dvi to s-video adapter

    when i connect my macbook to my sanyo hdtv via the mini dvi to s-video adapter the image on the computer screen apears on the tv, but with orange stripes down it.

    At what resolution? Have you tried different ones?

  • Need to convert mini dvi to s video to run a school's Hatiachi ceiling mount projector. What is the proper adapter?

    Need to convert mini dvi to s video to run a school's Hatiachi ceiling mount projector. What is the proper adapter?

    Check the projector and see what kind of input is has, most have a VGA connector, so you would need a male to male VGA. You will also need the Mac mini dvi to male VGA (of course).
    Some of the older projetors have a component in only, which is the red,yellow,green, RCA connectors, which are avaialable. (Usually the are fairy short, 5 ft or so,  so you would need to get a VGA with yhe mini DVI to VGA, and a component (the one with the 3 RCA's) you will probaly have to get a Female to Female VGA adapter to connect te VGA to the component.
    And finaally if that weren't enough, the really old projectors have only a composite input. All I can say about that is "the hunt is on"
    Best of luck

  • Problems with Mini DVI to S-Video/RCA adapter

    Hello
    I've got a mac mini and I want to pass its image to a television (note: this television doesn't have HDMI)
    I've bought the Mini DVI to S-Video/RCA adapter, but when I connect it to my TV nothing appers (except some gray lines, which means the signal is reaching the TV, but no image)
    Thanks

    That connector may not be compatible with an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini like yours.
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9319G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng&mco=MTA4NDU1MTE
    The Apple Mini-DVI to Video adapter is designed for use with the iMac (Intel Core Duo), MacBook*, and 12-inch PowerBook G4.

  • When I unplug Mini-dvi to S-video adapter mouse often disappears

    When I unplug my mini-dvi to s-video/rca adapter, the mouse cursor often disappears. This results in me having to restart the computer. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

    At what resolution? Have you tried different ones?

Maybe you are looking for

  • Memory problems (/questions/967643)

    Some basics Firefox 30 Windows XP SP3 Technical level I am a software developer but have no experience building or debugging firefox or any of the other mozilla products. I am willing to provide debug information as needed. I also have a background i

  • My documents are not syncing with iCloud.

    Can anyone give me another solution to resetting my documents and data on icloud? I have not been able to sync any new docs created on my macbook pro for a couple weeks. I have tried resetting my data but they it tells me that there was a problem and

  • ITunes Sync Error Message Not found in iTunes - Where is this?

    Occasionally when I sync my iPhone 4 with iTunes I will get an error on the iPhone that says 'Itunes Sync - some items could not be synced. See iTunes for more information' - I look in iTunes and can't find any error. Where is this displayed? Is ther

  • How do i get hosted website files back into iWeb after they were lost off iWeb?

    Lost all website files from my iWeb program.  Possible I updated a newer non compatible iWeb version?  At any rate........have website files back on my desktop and have no idea how to get them back into iWeb so I can modify.  Any help will be greatly

  • Regarding sending certificate to the third party while archiving SAP data

    Hi, I am stuck at one point in SAP. The steps I have followed are: 1. go to transaction code "oac0" (Display content repositories). 2. double click to any archive. 3. Here we can see a "Send Certificate", button.      By pressing this button, an http