I recently purchased a 40" TV for my bedroom (Samsung M87) and I love it. Problem is, cables make it look bad. I have purchased a couple of wall plates; with Composite Video, Component Video, an RF connection and S-Video connections, I need to know how to wire an S-Video connection (solder it).
Can you help?
2007-10-13 07:20:35 · 2 answers · asked by Jamie B 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
This pin out will work. Make sure to check with a ring out to be sure.
2007-10-13 08:40:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Be careful with this. You have to maintain the twists on the SVideo wires and dont have more than 1/4 inch un-twisted behind the connector or you mess up the impedance.
"Cables make it look bad." - No, it's not the cables. Composite and SVideo only carry the 1940's TV signals. These will all look like crap on that high-resolution display.
Get a CATV box with HD outputs or use component cables for your DVD player. Go to www.antennaweb.org and type in your address to see if you can simply put up an antenna. The Phillips "Silver Sensor" is a indoor antenna for about $30 that people love.
Also - wall plates are a very bad idea. With the exception of the "RF" connection, all the extra connectors are horrible for high-speed video signals. They are like speed-bumps and can cause reflections which will show up as ghosting on the TV and loss of focus.
Go to a custom cable web site and buy long, un-broken video cables. Run them through electrical outlet box's, but buy blank wall-plates and drill holes for the wires. You can always cut them off later and install the plates with connectors, but your best bet is a un-broken run.
Better yet - find a receiver that does video up-converting with HDMI. Run all your sources to the receiver, then run 1 HDMI cable to the TV. But I think you are better off getting true HD sources for that TV and they all come with HDMI outputs now. (And that TV has 3 HDMI inputs - nice.)
2007-10-14 20:22:39 · answer #2 · answered by Grumpy Mac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋