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    OC's CDU kit, need help with S-video...

    Hello!
    I bought the CDU kit, just because they didn't have built units left.
    But the PlayStation screen that comes with it, has no S-video plug on it, you are supposed to cut in the tiny wires, and connect to your S-video /composite output from your video card.
    The result up to now is that I have picture on the screen, but there seems to be a resolution problem, it is very unsharp.
    It is like if you send 1600x1200 to a regular TV set, then it will be very unsharp.
    In the display properties, I have now two screens,
    1600x1200 and the little one, which is 640x480.
    I can drag windows to the PlayStation screen, but text is almost unreadable.
    I believe that composite video is not the crispest kind of video, but I think I am doing something wrong.
    Can anyone who has managed to wire this kit to a 4 pin S-video plug, give me some advice?

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    Use an S-Video to RCA adapter.
    Here is one as an example:
    http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...2012&sku=27965
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    Thank you very much!
    But if that is only a cable, which is wired in a special way, I hope I can find info about that.. And the CDU kit itself has no RCA plug, you are supposed to "hack" into it, so I wonder if I have used the right kind of connection.

    But thank's again, the investigation continues.

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    The psone screen comes with 2 jack sockets, the black one is video-out.
    You thus need a mini rca jack to normal rca cable then a rca to s-video cable.
    There is no mini rca to svideo cable to my knowledge.
    http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...2016&sku=29148
    http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...2014&sku=40002
    http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...=120&sku=40648 This last one is to connect the two cables together.

    Using self-made cable is possible but you need to be careful with the shielding, otherwise you'll lose signal quality.

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    I see.
    I see that the PSone screen also has component in,
    so maybe I can actually make it a regular monitor and use a
    vga cable. Then it will hopefully get crisper.

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    if you search the net for psone mods, you can find people who use a vga output with the screen. But they also say you need a video card using composite synch. Apparenty only a few old ATI cards can handle it and it seems no nvidia can. You'll then also need a software to tune the screen and get a sharp picture and it seems the process is quite difficult.
    I personaly went another way, using a vga to rca adaptator and I have to say the picture ain't no HD but it's ok with my mcdu software, and I'm pretty sure a svideo output could get me better results.
    hope this helps.

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