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

martinhammer1

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?

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  • 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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  • 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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