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VGA to S-Video isn't displaying color? Please help!?
I ordered a VGA to S-Video converter box the other day so I could watch Netflix on my tv using my laptop. It works fine and I get a picture on the tv, but I have one problem. The display isnt in color. Is there any way I can fix this? Is there a setting on my computer or tv I should change? Help please!
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- Jamie HLv 48 years agoFavorite Answer
Try cranking the color control on the TV way up.
You might try the composite video connection (yellow jack) just to be sure.. if the converter and TV have that.
If that doesn't help, the converter box is defective. Color in NTSC depends on a 3.58 MHz "color subcarrier." That is what is carried by the way in the extra wire in the S-video connection; in composite video it is just mixed in with the black and white part of the signal. Either way, if the 3.58 MHz signal is not being generated in the box and getting to the TV, the TV can't display color.
Source(s): long experience with color TV; some experience, most of it not wonderful, with VGA to NTSC converters.