Great. Let us know how you get on.

Hi Martin,
If your TV, does not have a Composite (RCA "Phono") Connector for Video Input. You could get the Video into your TV, in a few different ways. When I first got my Pi model B (first edition), with 512mb of Ram. I hooked it up to my old CRT TV. By running the Composite, (RCA) Output, to a VCR. It worked well. You can read all about, how I did it on my Blog. Here, BishopCo.com DonsDeals Blog: The XBMC Raspberry Pi Solution Bundle from Element14.com - Review and First Experience by Don Bishop. There are Pics and Videos, as well. If you have a VCR, available. Or someone may be willing to give you their old one... You should, be able to hook up the Composite Output Signal, from the Pi. Going into the VCR, via an RCA Cable. Hook up the RCA Audio Cables too, if you want sound. Or, just hook the Audio up to a Speaker System, if you have one. And then, use the S-Video Output of the VCR, to go into your TV's S-Video Input. When you Boot-up your Pi. You may need to press 3 (for PAL Video ) or 4 (for NTSC Video) on you keyboard. In order to get the Pi to send out the Composite Video Signal (the Default it HDMI out). The text will be a bit Blurry. Due to the low Video Resolution, of Composite Signal. But, it is usable, in most cases. Especially, if you can enlarge the Text,in your App or OS. If you can't get your hands on a VCR. You could look around Online and see if you can find a Composite to S-Video Converter Cable. But, technically. A Composite Video Signal is not the same type of signal, as an S-Video Signal. Red this How To Article and see the differences between Composite and S-Video Signals. S-video to composite video adapter... http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html. So, you will need to do to a little research and make sure that the Converter Cable you buy, will work for this purpose. I do know, that I have an old Computer Video Card. That came with an Adapter Cable. Which sends out both S-Video and Composite Video Signals. It's a 2 way Splitter Cable. But, I'm not sure if the Video Card does something, within itself, that makes this work. Or if there is some Circuitry, with in the Adapter Cable. I know Composite to S-Video Converter Boxes, tend to be rather expensive. They are probably down to about $25 or so these days. A bit more than I would want to spend on such old Tech, though. I did a bit of searching my self, for Composite to S-Video Adapters and here's what I found...

Don

The answer is yes but the connector color may vary depending on the PI you have

The Model B has yellow video connector separate from audio, the model B+ and 2B + has a black connector but the video is still there in the jack

If you where closer.. My "toy box" is full of misc cables and I would have what you need.. The yellow socket on the Rpi will connect to the video in on the TV.

OT When I went to WM a while back, the cashier was ringing up my stuff and I noticed his name.. His legal first name is Hammer.. :-)

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions; I have now established the following. The RPi is sending the correct signal to the TV from the yellow composite socket (I did have to edit the config.txt to change it from NTSC to PAL though); it works on my main TV but not on the small one I was hoping to use, yet that is. I can't find any setting on the TV to select input from the Yellow composite socket, but this is clearly a problem with the TV and not the RPi. Thanks once again everyone.

Sometimes It is actually in the channel line up.. so it goes A/V then channel 2, 3, 4 and so on.. So you might try going thru the channels..

Thanks for the thought but I've been through all the channels. According to the TV User Manual it should automatically switch to AV when the composite connector is plugged, but no luck.

Does your TV have a SCART input in which case a Phono to SCART would do the job very well.

Re auto selecting the device at power up that's what often happens but sometimes that's not an option or is a config switch on the menu.

Thanks, but as it happened I have a phono to scart converter and it doesn't work thru that either!

I have an old RCA TV. That uses channel 91 or something like that. In

that range. There's no setting, in the menu, to turn it on or off. It

will, just pickup the Composite, signal, if it is there. I'm guessing

you have already tried the more common channels and line in, etc. If

your TV has it...

Don