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i have my pc only a few feet from my tv and i want to wire them together. my surround setup is messed up for using it while watching tv, so i have to run both audio and video cables to my tv. i have an ati radeon 9600 with s-video out port and a turtle beach santa cruz. first, for video, ill run an svideo cable to my tv with an svideo to rca adapter. i need to use composite hookups. then ill have the following configuration from my sound card:

-this going into my sound card port for audio. my speaker cable will come out one port, and
-this in the other port, using a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter
-basic rca audio cables from that to my tv

that set up will allow me to run the 2 left/right composite cables for audio straight to my tv and have the speakers hooked up at the same time. alright, but the problem is here: i only have a yellow composite blug for video and a white one for audio on my tv. thats right, no red. wtf? should i use something like this to run the cable straight into my tv? or run a 1/8" headphone to single rca cable from my sound card to my tv?
 
Sounds like you have a mono TV, or at least a mono-in TV. Nothing you can do about that.

I'd look aroudn the TV, though, some have additional contacts.
You could try a scart-adapter, too, if your tv has scart-contacts.
(I've never seen one without, but I've been told that they're an european thing. Big, almost-square female contact with lots of holes.)
 
the thing is, i had playstation 2 hooked up, with one video wire and one audio, the white one, and had sound out of both speakers. when i run my computer, i can only either plug in the left or right, red or white, and only one tv speaker works. im sure i can convert it into the same thing as ps2.
 
I'd look aroudn the TV, though, some have additional contacts.
You could try a scart-adapter, too, if your tv has scart-contacts.
(I've never seen one without, but I've been told that they're an european thing. Big, almost-square female contact with lots of holes.) [/B][/QUOTE]

I'm in the states and have NEVER seen a scrat connector on a TV. I guess they are a European thing.
 
ah, this is pissing me off. i have a headphone to rca adapter im running from my computer. the rca has 2 male plugs, the red and white. i run those into a 2 female to 1 male rca adapter that goes into my one tv plug. i only get sound out of the right speaker. i can fade from left to right in winamp, but it stays on the right speaker. it fades from the left of the right speaker to the right of the right speaker, but nothing comes out the left speaker. this is pissing me off. how did ps2 work with only one audio plug hooked up?
 
Originally posted by TekieB

I'm in the states and have NEVER seen a scrat connector on a TV. I guess they are a European thing. [/B]
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SCART, actually.
Too bad, it's a practical technology.
In short, there's a pin or five designated for more or less every possible transfer method, so you'll usually get something ok, and you only need one (bulky) cable.
 
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