Belkin PC-DVD to TV Cable Kit, with S-Video Cable & Scart Adapter 10m
from Belkin
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Customer Rating: 
Model No: F8V351ea10M
Release Date: 14/12/2004
Index: Digital & Electronics
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Digital Box Price: £12.50
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Works well, very easy to use but you need a HDTV  Sent: 20 September 2007
Got this from Amazon as it was a bargain compared to places like PC World or Maplin (costs circa £25). Delivered next day, long cables, solid finish, no manual but you don't need one. If you are (like me) looking to set up a 'digital living room' at home with the PC hooked up to the TV and wireless keyboard/remote, you should really have a HDTV or large TFT monitor. I've got one of those bulky Toshibas and managed to connect to my HP media center laptop, very straigtforward but the picture quality is nowhere near as good as on the laptop, to do with screen type I guess, if you opened a word document or a web page it's impossible to read anything, it's just about good enough for watching movies. Hoping for some good HDTV deals on Xmas now...
It all works but you might need a s-video to component adapter! Sent: 07 June 2007
This product works for some people fine, generally with newer TVs. I have an old 28" CRT running off a ATI 9700 and I got a B&W picture.
Black and white B&W PICTURE FIXED with an s-video to component video adapter! Found for about £3 inc P&P Just plug the TVend of the S-video cable into the adapter then plug the adapter with the component end into the available yellow video component port in the scart adapter.
The color was a bit low but I turned it up on the TV set and SORTED!!!
Great Product! Sent: 06 March 2007
I've Been playing videos on my Pc and watching them on my Tv for a long time now using the video out connection on my Nvidia Mx420 card, but suffered severe colour saturation on the Tv image. I used the colour controls on the card to balance out the excessive red saturation, anybody with this card will know what a pain that is!
I read the reviews on this product and wary that some people commented on only getting black and white images when using using this cable with the provided scart connecter decided it was worth the risk anyhow.
What a difference! This product works!
I connected it to the provided scart, plugged it into the sky plus box and voila! my Pc desktop appeared on the Tv screen. In colour!
Inspired I rolled on fired up Windows media player 11, played a random video and watched in crystal clear glorious colour a DIVX movie!
If you buy this product you will notice staight away the massive improvement over video out I promise.
The reason why I got this cable was so my daughter could watch networked videos through her Compaq laptop on her tv (even though her laptop is widecreen. There's no pleasing some people!) When I've tested networked laptop I'll add to this review.
Lastly. Like I said I used to use the video out only because I had split the lead to enable me to watch films from the Pc in the living room and bedroom.
Now I'm gonna have to find a s-video cable splitter/router coz ain't no way I'm going back to video out.
Works Fine without scart  Sent: 03 April 2006
As the other review states using the scart connector I could not get a picture colour or B/W worth looking at. So I discarded the scart connector and used the AV leads and finally got the colour picture.I would have given it five stars if the scart connector had worked.
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Associated digital product categories: computer peripherals, cables, leads, cable accessories |
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