Gbax Tv Out Cable Review

[NeoStuey]

Just a quick thought. Will this cable I had work as an adaptor or is the the wrong way, I have all the cable male/female talk.

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Sorry but that is a male s-video to female composite. Won't work I'm afraid.

Female=holes

Males=Sticky out bits

 

[nickspoon]

Just a quick thought. Will this cable I had work as an adaptor or is the the wrong way, I have all the cable male/female talk.

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Sorry but that is a male s-video to female composite. Won't work I'm afraid.

Female=holes

Males=Sticky out bits

Not that hard to remember which is which

 

[DynaMight]

Just a quick thought. Will this cable I had work as an adaptor or is the the wrong way, I have all the cable male/female talk.

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Sorry but that is a male s-video to female composite. Won't work I'm afraid.

Female=holes

Males=Sticky out bits

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Well back in my junk cable box they go.

 

[NeoStuey]

@nickspoon

If you are connecting to 3 phono yellow, red & white. Then keep it simple, it will be cheaper too.

1 Female S-Video-to-Female Composite (phono) adaptor £5.00 + postage Maplins, probably get it cheaper somewhere else.

2 3 Phono to 3 Phono 5 metre lead on Ebay approx £5.00 delivered.

That's all you need to go add to the TV-out lead from Gbax.

 

[xrti]

A quick question,I hope someone can answer

Can you plug the 3 Phono plugs into a scart adaptor?
My TV is out of the dark ages

 

[NeoStuey]

A quick question,I hope someone can answer

Can you plug the 3 Phono plugs into a scart adaptor?
My TV is out of the dark ages

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Yes you can That is if you are doing the part that I wrote in my @ nickspoon post first to make it a 3 phono lead.

 

[xrti]

Excellent!!

I am going to set it up as you described in the @ nickspoon post
Many thanks for the help/reply NeoStuey

 

[nickspoon]

Alas, nickspoon doesn't have it set up as in the @nickspoon post (which would have been cheaper to do, but nevermind, £25 to get the whole lot working isn't too bad

 

[NeoStuey]

Alas, nickspoon doesn't have it set up as in the @nickspoon post (which would have been cheaper to do, but nevermind, £25 to get the whole lot working isn't too bad

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I thought you was going into 3 phono? or is the you had you ordered all you bits before I posted?

£25 not bad at all, if that includes the TV-out cable from gbax.

 

[nickspoon]

I ordered the bits before you posted. I'm quick like that.

£15 for TV-Out, £5 for S-Vid to Phono adapter, £2.50 for S-Vid extension and £2.50 for 2x Phono Male-Male.

Got to love eBay.

 

[NeoStuey]

I ordered the bits before you posted. I'm quick like that.

£15 for TV-Out, £5 for S-Vid to Phono adapter, £2.50 for S-Vid extension and £2.50 for 2x Phono Male-Male.

Got to love eBay.

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Can't complain at those prices.

I was worried that by buying seperate cables it would cost you more, but it looks to me as though the difference would be negligable, if any.

 

[Dastardly]

Sorry if this has already been covered but....

Are the phono leads on the GBAX TV Out cable male or female connectors?

Thanks

EDIT: Apologies, Ive just found the answer - ignore

 

[adgloride]

This is what I ordered from Maplin

L10BA 3x Phono Lead 1.5m £4.99 - going to spit it down to just the 2
QM52 SVHS-Phono Adaptor £4.99 - Took ages to find this and they only had 1 left in stock

Just edited the post these are the only 2 items you need to get it working. The SVHS adapter plugs into the SVHS cable and then u can plug all the 3 phono leads into each different socket.

 

[Flexinoodle]

Wow very expensive just to get TV out working whew

 

[Muncher666]

Paradox,

Do not buy the adaptor from me, if you can't work out how to use it just DON'T buy it.

-Craig

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Shit dude. Harsh.

Allan.

 

[GeminiDomino]

EDIT: Nevermind. Next time I'll read the whole thread rather than ask questions when they come to mind. Beats having to wire up my own S-video->RCA adapter.

Memo to self: Don't order from gbax until I get an engineering degree.

 

[Planet_M]

Paradox,

Do not buy the adaptor from me, if you can't work out how to use it just DON'T buy it.

-Craig

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Shit dude. Harsh.

Allan.

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Craig's typically unhelpful approach to customer support.

Personally i'm seriously put out by the insane choice of s-video for the tv-out. First i tried a cheap s-video to scart adaptor, which only gave a black and white picture. So now i've got one of the s-video to phono adaptors from maplin mentioned previously in this thread, but after running the video via a phono type cable (as craigix himself suggests) I still get a b&w pic... So far as i'm concerned the tv-out function is currently an unusable PoS... I'm sick of constantly throwing money at the gp2x (add this to batteries, charger, sd-card which is recognised, etc... it all starts seriously adding up :angry: )

 

[OmarNawaz]

Paradox,

Do not buy the adaptor from me, if you can't work out how to use it just DON'T buy it.

-Craig

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Shit dude. Harsh.

Allan.

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Craig's typically unhelpful approach to customer support.

Personally i'm seriously put out by the insane choice of s-video for the tv-out. First i tried a cheap s-video to scart adaptor, which only gave a black and white picture. So now i've got one of the s-video to phono adaptors from maplin mentioned previously in this thread, but after running the video via a phono type cable (as craigix himself suggests) I still get a b&w pic... So far as i'm concerned the tv-out function is currently an unusable PoS... I'm sick of constantly throwing money at the gp2x (add this to batteries, charger, sd-card which is recognised, etc... it all starts seriously adding up :angry: )

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i had the exact same problem dude i was climbing the bloody walls going crazy i vented some of my anger on the tv control and by some happy accident it started working in colour

i take it your svideo and phono conections are on the front of your TV mapped to one of the av channels, mine appeared to be on AV3 i was getting a black and white picture.

Then i pressed the Av button on my remote (panasonic) it switched to "AV3S" which gave me colour through the S video.

On my other tv this setting was much more hidden I had to navigate around the tv menu eventually i found it and changed it from Component to Svideo.

Hope this helps dude

Coincendetally i was looking at my TVout cable today and the better quality manufaturing process involves the pins being slightly bent upwards :lol:

BTW make sure you select the current region when enabling TVOUT from the gp2x i.e PAL europe UK NTSC the rest of the world

 

[Planet_M]

BTW make sure you select the current region when enabling TVOUT from the gp2x i.e PAL europe UK NTSC the rest of the world

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thanks Omar... i'm thinking rationally again and think this is the issue.... but where do i choose ntsc or pal? i'm using firmware 1.1.0, but i don't see the option anywhere?

 

[ingrin]

BTW make sure you select the current region when enabling TVOUT from the gp2x i.e PAL europe UK NTSC the rest of the world

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thanks Omar... i'm thinking rationally again and think this is the issue.... but where do i choose ntsc or pal? i'm using firmware 1.1.0, but i don't see the option anywhere?

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Settings-> TV Out