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Old September 7th, 2004, 11:01 AM
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Re: VGA to Composite does not work why?

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Originally Posted by nreel
My Computers use ATI Radeon Dual Head Video Cards. Which means that, along with the DVI Video OUT for the second Display, I have an S-Video OUT.

The S-Video just Hangs there, plugged into the S-Video OUT Port, and does NOT hold the S-Video Plug "Snapped" or "Locked" in. This is why I researched on using the DVI second Video OUT. The DVI, as with the VGA, connector has screws to hold the connector in Place. Impossible for the Video Cable to, just, fall out as with the S-Video.

So, to use the DVI, I had, already, purchased one of those converters before. One, the Computer would not recognize this as a Second Display and Two, the Displayed Video's positioning was terrible. It had controls to move, center, and resize, but never worked properly. The one I bought cost about the same, $150, and I promptly returned it.

I think a Converter that costs about $500 would probably work, but I am not going to buy one on the outset that it MIGHT work.

Besides, without a DUAL Head Video Card, you will be back in the same boat of using Hoster in a SINGLE Display Mode operation, as mentioned above in my earlier Post.

A Video Converter will not make a SINGLE Mode Operation DUAL Mode.

Norm
tHANKS FOR THE INFO

I just ordered the $89 dollor job, it is supposed to work, I don't know how to tell if it is a dual or not, I only know that vga works great, so why wouldn't any other monitor, thanks for the heads up on the positioning, that sounds like it is going to be a trick.

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