How can I connect my 800XL to my TV's DVD input (Y Pr Pb)

[Zybex]

How can I connect my Atari 800XL to my TV's DVD input (Y Pr Pb)?

 

When I connect the Video Out signal from my Atari to the Y input, the screen looks only in black and white.

[deathtrappomegranate]

What type of cable are you using?

[Cybernoid]

How can I connect my Atari 800XL to my TV's DVD input (Y Pr Pb)?  

 

When I connect the Video Out signal from my Atari to the Y input, the screen looks only in black and white.

 

Uh, if you only connect to the Y signal, you will only get black and white.

Y = luma = brightness only.

Pb / Pr are color components.

 

Y Pb Pr is a different color space, but can be transformed from RGB, anyway...

 

You should not connect the Video Out (composite Video (pin 4 on monitor port)) signal to Y, but rather the composite Luminace, pin 1, to Y. Even though the Video out will work, you will see the "color information" as noise on the screen.

 

I think the best you can do, without a separate chip to convert S-video to Y Pb Pr or to RGB, is to connect the Luminance pin to Y. You will need a chip that can take composite chrominance and convert it into separate color channels....

[Cybernoid]

Does your DVD accept S-video inputs? This can be used to connect to an Atari without modification.

[Cybernoid]

Also, this guy will convert from S-video to Y Pb Pr:

 

http://www.highway.net.au/parts/converters/2003.html

 

I do not see separate Y Pb Pr BNC connectors, but there is a menu option for Y Pb Or output. I assume you use the VGA to RGB converter, but the RGB end would really output the Y Pb Pr color space.

 

But you will have to spend a couple $$$'s...

[LYNXGUY]

I have just 1 question. . . .

 

Why would you want to connect your Atari 800XL to your TV's DVD input (Y Pr Pb) ??

[Fröhn]

y/c enhances the luminance a bit, but you lose the possibility to create colors via luminance signal. dont forget that some A8 games do that. Pr Pb does not enhance anything over the simple chrominance signal because the chrominance signal needs to be split anyway. there is no PrPb inside the A8.