Hi, I am having trouble getting my TV out signal to prodcue a clear colour picture on the television. I have a Geforce 4 mmx40 graphics card with S-Video out to a digital widescreen TV, on an ABIT SA6R motherboard (Win XP platform). The picture picks up okay but is really poor resolution and the colour is not working. I tried to adjust settings in the graphics card dialogue boxes but to no avail. I wish to record video I have edited using Adobe premiere software to tape, but this is a major glitch? The only display colour options open to me are 16 bit or 32 bit. Should I be looking for 256 colours here?? Any ideas? Many thanks in advance, MarkEE

I think the resolution is determined by the quality of the video out chip. If you are running an off brand computer, what is the possibility that you might have inferior TV out chips? My little laptop (name brand)gives great resolution to the TV (name brand), "Chips, we don't need no stinkin' chips!"

could be you have yhe wrong country selected in display properties (PAL/NTSC) options

You need to select S-VIDEO. You have two choices with your tv's inputs, and both produce pictures for different formats. if you don't select the correct type of input you will still get a picture, but it will be poor, and without colour. Ths S-VIDEO will produce S-VIDEO quality picture, but you need to select S-VIDEO on your tv (I used to have to select something on the remote for our JVC tv). And the regular VIDEO out will produce regular picture at a lower quality. Doesn't your geforce have composite RGB video out? Or surely it has a digital video out? One answer to this, is, and I am taking aguess that you are in the UK, get a scart covertor. You can buy a scart convertor to plug your s-video lead into, and the plug into the scart socket. It then "self selects". Much easier, and I got one of these with my ATI All In Wonder. I used to sell tv's for a living, so I have a pretty good knowledge on this. But without digital video out, you will still only get a "less than perfect" analogue picture as tv's have a much lower resolution than your monitor!. Unless of course, you have a HDTV!

The solution in the end was simple. The TV needed to be connected to the PC before booting up. Why oh why did I not think of this in the first place?? Thanks for the advice guys. MarkEE