I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny

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I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but
although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be
able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny

Ebay has lots of converters like that.

I have not tried them,but they don't cost much to try. Here is one for
$ 10.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VGA-to-TV-RC...ter-Adapter-S-
video-Box-for-PC-Laptop-Windows-Mac-/111867988250?
hash=item1a0bda091a:g:YLkAAOSwSHZWgz4n

They are usually from $ 10 to $ 30.

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:21:28 AM UTC-8, wrote:
I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter...

The laptop has to supply sync-on-green for a simple adapter to work. Can you interrogate
the video output mode, or change it, to make interlaced 60 Hz video with sync-on-green?

More flexible (expensive) adapters actually include frame buffers, and require a power supply.

whit3rd wrote:
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:21:28 AM UTC-8, wrote:
I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter...

The laptop has to supply sync-on-green for a simple adapter to work. Can you interrogate
the video output mode, or change it, to make interlaced 60 Hz video with sync-on-green?

More flexible (expensive) adapters actually include frame buffers, and require a power supply.


Used Extron scan converters show up on Ebay for reasonable prices.
VGA to S-Video or composite are common models. There is a steady stream
of older hardware being pulled out during upgrades to digital and mixed
video systems.


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They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.

Thanks,
Pat

Pat wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.

Over unity = Perpetual Motion = unending revenge. ;-)


--
Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:21:28 AM UTC-5, wrote:
I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny

I thought "perpetual motion" was a theoretical quantity, kind of like the square root of -1. Lenny

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:35:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Pat wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.

Over unity = Perpetual Motion = unending revenge. ;-)

Thanks. I either never knew or forgot the phrase "over unity". I did
a quick Google search and found many references to it so clearly the
problem is my memory (or lack thereof).

wrote:
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:21:28 AM UTC-5, wrote:
I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny

I thought "perpetual motion" was a theoretical quantity, kind of like the square root of -1. Lenny


Over unity means that you get back more effort, than you put in. ;-)

--
Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

Pat wrote:
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:35:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Pat wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

Can you explain this? I must be getting old because I don't get it.

Over unity = Perpetual Motion = unending revenge. ;-)

Thanks. I either never knew or forgot the phrase "over unity". I did
a quick Google search and found many references to it so clearly the
problem is my memory (or lack thereof).

It's no big deal. I love bad jokes, and I like to share them.

--
Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)