Can I connect and old TV with S-Video and/or the old red/yellow/white phono sockets?

Hi there, I've been given an old flat screen TV with a 4 pin S-Video socket and the old phono sockets; does anyone know if there is any way of connecting this as my monitor to me R Pi?

martinhammer1 over 10 years ago

I've found some S-Video/HDMI converters but I don't know whether they work in both directions, and if they do work, in practice how good are they?
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gadget.iom over 10 years ago

What version of Raspberry Pi do you have?
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martinhammer1 over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

It's an early Model A with 512Mb
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gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

There should be a yellow Phono connector on there for composite video output.
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martinhammer1 over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Hadn't thought of that; I've just checked and surprisingly I don't have a phono lead in my toy cupboard. How well would one work?
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gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

How well would what work?
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martinhammer1 over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

The old TV as the monitor for my Model A Raspberry PI
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gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

I don't see why not

See if you can beg/steal/borrow a cable to test it with.
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knight_rider1977 over 10 years ago

You should be able to hook up the analog video output of the pi to the yellow (video) rca connection on the TV. The red and white are left and right audio so you would need a 3.5mm phone jack to rca cable to have sound as well. You could also use the analog output on an even older tv before rca input was built in. This was done via a rf modulator but i am not sure how well that will really work since both the video and sound signal were sent over the same cable....you may need to tell the pi which output to use to get it to work. There will also be a limit on what resolution it will be capable along with that the overall picture quality will not be great.
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martinhammer1 over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Thanks, I'm one step ahead, just ordered one off of e-Bay for 99p, with any luck it'll be here tomorrow, I'll let you know how it goes.
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