Let's design a new video mod

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Allright... My other tv is an LG 55LE5500. It supports RGB over scart, but as far as I see no s-video. This would explain why the colors don't look right. Now only find an old crt to see what happens when I try that. Fingers crossed it will work...

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Again... thanks for the input. Really appreciate it. I am currently away from home, so unable to verify both my tv's. One of them I do know by head which model it is and I already figured out that it actually doesn't support s-video. Whether this means it doesn't support s-video over scart I don't know.This was the tv I took the pictures from in my post above. I might try my 2600 on an old CRT to see what that does. If all else fails I'll stick to composite a bit until I have an xrgb framemeister. I believe this would take in s-video, as well as all the other consoles I have.

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Thanks for the reply alex_79. Before your reply I already tried bending pin 9 from the TIA, since that has the colour signal as far as I saw from the pinouts. It didn't help much.

I tried this on two tv's (both LG, different models though) and they both give me thesame result. What I did notice is when I connect both s-video and composite, the image improves. With a bit of tweaking on the colour wheel I managed to get a bit of a better image but by no means perfect. I will see if my tv supports S-video through scart. To be fair I haven't checked that yet. The weird thing is that in black and white the image is picture perfect.

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Thanks for the reply alex_79. Before your reply I already tried bending pin 9 from the TIA, since that has the colour signal as far as I saw from the pinouts. It didn't help much.

 

I tried this on two tv's (both LG, different models though) and they both give me thesame result. What I did notice is when I connect both s-video and composite, the image improves. With a bit of tweaking on the colour wheel I managed to get a bit of a better image but by no means perfect. I will see if my tv supports S-video through scart. To be fair I haven't checked that yet. The weird thing is that in black and white the image is picture perfect.

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In the mean time I lifted the pins on the TIA. Not much difference. I did how discover that the image got a bit better when I connected both the s-video and the composite kabel. No idea why, but I am playing like that now. If anyone has any ideas they are welcome.

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I tried to get this to work on my atari 2600 PAL 4 switch and it is giving me some problems. The comp image is working fine and with a bit of tweaking I can get the colors right, however... I tried this mod for the s-video! When I connect it to s-video it gives me these weird "ghost colors" that I can't get rid of, no matter how I try by turning the adjustment pot meter on the main board. When I turn it as far as black and white there is no ghosting at all. I connected everything according to the guide on the electronic sentimentalities website, except for the legs of the IC. That was done as described in post 86 of this thread and I did not lift them. In stead I soldered everything to the backside of the pcb. Might this be the problem?

 

I will attach some pictures. Hopefully some wizards on the forum here might recognize this and will be able to help me out. I tested this on a an lcd tv with a scart connector. Any ideas?

 

Cheers!

 

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[My (PAL) Light Sixer restoration and S-video mod.]

I'm about to do the BAtari mod to my PAL 4 switcher here. So as far as I got it... It will not be needed to bend the legs of the TIA and I can just solder the wires to the solderpoints of the TIA in the atari PCB? If not... What is the reasoning behind the tutorials bending them anyway? Would be great of I could do without that since I'm afraid to damage things... Hope someone can verify this. Thanks!