danwinslow Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I am trying to get some 130XE's hooked up to monitors via the monitor port output. I bought some cables that went from the monitor port to a S-Video and 2 rca plugs ( red and white ). One modern TV I have ( a magnavox 15in LCD TV) picks up the svideo beatifully. Another LCD tv I have does not. I have also tried hooking the output up to a variety of video converters with no luck. Is there something wrong with the SVideo output from a 130? What other options do I have to hook up ( besides the RF jack ) is there composite video out from the monitor port at all? I had assumed that the red & white rca outputs on the cable were chroma & luma....but I have tried various ways with those and I can get much. On older monitors ( commodore 104 etc. ) all I can get is a garbled, rolling picture. I have tried with more than one 130 and more than one cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I would have thought that with the cable you have the red and white RCA are for sound, left and right, even though the stock 130xe is mono. I have experienced the same problem as you with regard to s-video on an LCD tv, the Atari video output is not standard by todays standards. Some tvs can cope with the signal, but some can't as you have found. For a C= monitor you will need a different cable with separate croma and luma connections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) It's got composite too. Does the second LCD TV work with RF? If not, then probably not much point trying the other alternatives as they'd likely not work either. Maybe check the cable. Make sure all the RCA terminals are grounded properly, and check they go to the proper pin on the 5-pin plug. The pinout of the monitor plug - / . \ |L A| |V C| \ G / L=luma, A=Audio out, V=Composite Video, C=Chroma, G=GND Yes, Commodore use a slightly different pinout - probably best not to use one of their cables. http://pinouts.ru/Multimedia/AudioVideoC64_pinout.shtml - Commodore monitor jack pinout there. Edited March 20, 2009 by Rybags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 THanks guys. I found that with a 1200xl, the second tv could occasionally lock onto the svideo, but it was distorted and skewed about 1/3 to the top and left. Cycling the power three or four times, it would usually grab onto a good signal. So, its definitely a problem with the TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Mimo - I don't know whats on those jacks...I plugged them into audio and I could hear a high pitched whine..so theyve got some kind of signal on them but I cant get anything out of them either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broonale Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 You are scaring me! My Svideo cable arrived today. I sure hope it works on my LCD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broonale Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I just tried it and it works great! It got even better when I adjusted the advanced features like black and white level extenders etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 do the super video mod, should be back to normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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