DVI to TV?

Matsaki

Matsaki

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Can I use my DVI out port on my G4 Quicksilver to connect to my 100Mhz Sony TV as the G4 don't have any S-Video out?
 
DVI may have analog and digital information, but most often it is only digital. And even when there is analog info, it is not TV frequencies.

So the answer is basically no, unless you have a converter DVI->TV (if this even exists)
 
You would need a RGB-PAL/NTSC converter. They are available for VGA d-sub plugs and I have a bunch of DVI-VGA adapters here.
 
I am surprised the G4 Quicksilver has a DVI port but not tv-out option. But there is no low-cost solution.. :(
 
None of the Apple desktops come with tv-out. Certain aftermarket cards can be had for around $100 that include DVI, VGA and S-Video ports, but as far as I know, no currently-shipping Macintosh desktop model, nor any Macintosh desktop model sold since 2000 has TV/S-Video out capabilities out-of-the-box.

If you're interested in adding S-Video out to the computer, I would suggest adding an ATi Radeon 9200 Mac Edition card. They can be had for a little over $100, and fit in any 66MHz or 33MHz PCI slot. Note that this is not a replacement for the card currently in the computer, rather, an addition, since the card currently in the computer is an AGP card (not PCI).

In addition to TV-out capabilities, you'll also gain the ability to run two or more monitors by adding the 9200 card.
 
Can I use this one? http://62.20.120.61/smg_site.dll?EPAC_XMLFromDocid&FORCE=23&MSN=CATALOG&DOCID=&XSL=produkt1.xsl&DOC=fil.xml&SES=ns&QUERYDOC=(I003=A9200SE/TD/128M)
 
I don't know about all the other cards, but the S-video card from the Radeon 9800 that my brother bought looks really bad on my tv.
 
Matsaki said:
I don't know whats wrong? If the PC stuff is much less in price. Here you can see some prices in the UK http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/search?q=ati+radeon+9200
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Yes, comparable graphics cards for the Windows/Intel/AMD platform tend to be much cheaper than the Mac versions. Mac graphics cards are inherently much more expensive than the PC counterparts.

That's why there's a lot of interest in "flashing" the ROM on the PC graphics cards with a ROM file from a Macintosh graphics card and getting them to work reliably in a Macintosh computer. That way, you buy a super-cheap PC card, "flash" it, then put it in your Mac. There have been varying degrees of success. Sometimes, trying to flash the ROM actually renders the card useless, and no amount of flashing or troubleshooting will bring it back. Others have had really good success with certain cards and flashing.

A simple search on Google should turn up hundreds of sites with info about flashing PC cards to work in a Mac, or AppleFritter has a discussion on flashing:

http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/1780
 
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