Any way to connect s-video out to component in?

[davin]

Here's a question I never thought I'd need to ask... I'm considering getting a new TV for the bedroom and hooking it up to a mediaMVP. Of course, I would like to use the s-video output of the MVP rather than the composite.

However, the TV I'm looking at (14" samsung tube) has composite and component inputs, but no s-video! I guess for cheap TVs you've gotta cut cost out anywhere you can, and most DVD players have component outs now, so they cut out the s-video input.

Question: is there any converter box that can take an s-video signal and break the color line into the Cr and Cb signals? I did a google search but didn't come up with anything... this seems like a uncommon situation.

Thanks.

[dbfresh23]

It would be much much much easier to just get a converter for svideo to composite.

I've never seen anything that would convert svid to component though component should still be able to do 480i so technically it *could* be possible i guess.

[davin]

Well, the MVP does have a composite output, so I could always use that. But I would rather use the seperate Y and C signals from the s-video out to get better PQ.

[stanger89]

I'd just look for a cheap TV with S-Video.

[aperry]

Yeah, here's a link to a Toshiba TV (model 14AF45) that has component and S-Video, and it looks like it is only $20 more than the Samsung. It has 1 component input, 1 S-Video input, and 3 composite inputs.

[Menehune]

It is going to cost more money than it's worth, IMHO. I'd use the composite input of the TV.

We use a DA-Portal Pro at work ($1800us) to convert from any input to any output. It can do S-video to component transcoding. Never tried it since we purchased it to convert to/from SDI and firewire.

You may be able to use the DV converter pro ($350us) to convert from s-video to component.

*oops, the DV converter goes from component to composite, not the other way around.

[davin]

yah, that's what I was afraid of. thanks for all the replies!