pc to tv without svideo

[Mikej3131]

Hello,
I just did a bunch of research on this pc to tv conversion thing and all the forums and all the people who have done it say its not even worth it if your going to use a vga to s video converter because of the bad picture quality you get. They said the best way to go is to buy a video card with a svideo port on it. Is this true?
i have a NVIDIA GeForce 6100 graphics with PCI Express x16 expansion slot and up to 128MB shared video memory; high-definition audio (7.1-channel support)
"http://www.nvidia.com/page/gpumobo_6100-410_features.html"

with a Gateway 19" Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor FPD1960
"http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7229493&type=product&id=1115363750704"

My video card does not have a svideo so i was thinking about upgrading to one that does. Would this be my best option for pc to tv conversion. And also if i do get a new card, i want one that atleast matches the one i have now in quality and also has a svideo port. Anybody have any suggestions on what to get or where to get one?


Thanks

[Vipergts662]

I cant give you suggestions on the video card but others here can, but I can tell you that it is extremely easy to hook your desktop upto the tv with the svideo port. It is really just plug and play at that point.

[muchspl3]

why would the quailty be bad from vga to svid?

[Mikej3131]

heres a good thread for pc to tv

Admire the collective desire to feed VGA output to S-Video. This is more than a simple plumbing challenge. VGA is, of course, a digitally formatted signal while NTSC, whether composite, S-Video or Rf, is analog. What this requires is a VGA to PAL or NTSC converter. Chipsets designed to perform this function abound since many TV-Tuner and Video-Capture cards (WinTV, AIW ATI Radeon, Zoltrix TV Max, to name a few) exploit this capability to transform analog inputs for digitizing (viewing on VGA) and DVR functionality. If you're really up for the challenge of masking, etching, inserting and soldering components on a PCB along with sufficient testing, the following site has a somewhat dated example of what you're after:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/c...a2palntsc.html