S-video to composite adapter?

Question

I have an adapter that converts a composite signal from my home theater to an s-video signal into my projector. There are tiny lines that i can see on the screen that are not there when the connector is not used but i need to usde the connector to configure my setup. Please let me know if there is anyway that I can avoid this distortion.

Answer 1

Well S video is higher quality than composite video. So you are trying to take a low quality signal and turn it into a higher quality. Plus now you are adding a converter inline which adds more noise into the issue.

S video has seperate luma and chroma signals or brightness and color,.composite video is just that both luma and chroma combined into one signal. Because the chroma is squeezed into the upper limits of the composite signal, causing a degraded signal, and lower quality, compared to S video.

Getting a newer hometheater with S video output might be your only answer..

Answer 2

It may be that your s-video signal is not properly grounded, which increases noise and interference.

Answer 3

I don't know what you mean with "need to usde the connector to configure my setup". But I would avoid the composite and keep the S-Video signal since it's better quality.

Try to get a home theater with S-video or component video.

Answer 4

The only solution would be a composite video to S-video adapter like you have, but the lines may indicate a poor quality cable, cables surprisingly can increase the quality substantially depending on the type of cable being used, head over to your local electronics store and inquire into a high quality cable, go to a store with a loose return policy, open product and 30 days is a good idea (walmart, futureshop, etc) and try some out, go to a next lever price increase with each this way you may find you don't need the most expensive, but a moderate priced cable may do the trick. Cheers.

Answer 5

I had to do the very same thing not too long ago. I had a very slight bit of "background noise" on my screen also. Obviously that adapter is NOT the best way of doing things, but at the very least just gets things to work.