JW
Wed May 07 19:36:47 PDT 2008
How are you connecting your computer to the TV to use composite and stereo
audio.
The composite connection would have to come from your computers graphics
card and the audio from your computers sound card. And then you would have
to be configure the second display in your graphics card/display drivers.
"SunnyMeInLargoFlorida" <SunnyMeInLargoFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:68E7BF19-E23E-4E5D-8320-B74C39115179@microsoft.com...
> Hi JW....well I took all the cabling apart tonight and put it all back
> together using coax cables. I basically had to take the coax cable from
> the
> STB and use a splitter connecting one cable out to my TV and one cable out
> to
> my computer. I rebooted my computer, ran the MediaCenter setup again and
> now
> my Live TV is in color. Thanks for your advice.
>
> I used the red, white and yellow composite cables to connect my computer
> to
> my TV as now I'm trying to view my computer on my TV. I fudged with that
> for
> an hour tonight, but got burned out. I tried a few things under Display
> Settings on my computer, but nothing worked. Any ideas?
>
> Again, thank you for your help. I will "rate" your posting accordingly.
> Liz
>
> "JW" wrote:
>
>> You will have to shift to using RF via Coax from your STB to the
>> cable/antennas connection on your tuner card and then set the output
>> channel
>> number on your STB to either channel 3 or 4 as appropriate for you
>> location
>> since your tuner card can not accept a composite input and your STB
>> apparently does not have a S-Video output.
>> "SunnyMeInLargoFlorida" <SunnyMeInLargoFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote in message
>> news:A3833AE4-B06B-41E4-B406-BD2D3C43FDCC@microsoft.com...
>> > Oh sorry, regarding the cables, I am using an adapter that converts
>> > composite
>> > to a 4 pin end - these came with my computer. I will look again at all
>> > my
>> > cabling as I'm going to buy some new cables and see if that fixes
>> > things.
>> >
>> > In the meantime, if you can think of anything else, I'm willing to try
>> > it.
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Curious" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Do other program appear in color such as a DVD played in MC?
>> >> I am confused when you say you are using an S-video cable with and
>> >> adapter
>> >> since the only S-video cable adapters that I am aware of only convert
>> >> S-Video to composite and can not be used to convert composite to
>> >> S-Video.
>> >> "Jason Tsang" <jason-onlineDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
>> >> news:%23VkL6G9pIHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> >> > How is your tv signal connected to your computer?
>> >> >
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>> >> > "SunnyMeInLargoFlorida"
>> >> > <SunnyMeInLargoFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> >> > wrote in message
>> >> > news:50B9B211-2B7C-47A5-8B72-5295E14A4E04@microsoft.com...
>> >> >> Got my TV tuner working on my new PC, but my picture is in black
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> white.
>> >> >> I've never seen it working in color and I apparently can't get it
>> >> >> working
>> >> >> correctly. Anyone know how to fix this?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
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