I want to buy the RGB cable for Matrox G 550 DH

[user]

Hi everybody,

I have ordered the G 550 DH.


Could somebody sell me the RGB cable according to Matrox specifications at their website, please ?

Or a link, where I can find somebody, or a shop ?


I am living in Germany, so people/shops from Europe are preferred (due to costs for shipping).

But for example Americans with sending Christmas parcels to German relatives, are welcome also !

My mail:

No_spam_gigo-fern@gmx.net_I_do_hate_spam

You should be able to get my mail from that super-secret anti-spam code.

[user]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/faq/details.cfm?id=14

Is this the only description, how to make yourself such a RGB TVout cable connection ?

I need Scart-RGB for my TV.

[dZeus]

yup, that's the description for how to make the SCART-RGB..

it should be clear enough

[user]

There is written:

***This is ONLY for the HD-15 connector with the Millennium G550 series.***

What is the HD-15 Connector ?

[dZeus]

VGA connector, i.e. not the DVI

[MJA]

doesn't the G550 DH come with that cable?
(When I got a G400 DH it had one in the box!)

[dZeus]

nope.

I guess you're confusing the breakout cable (which comes with every retail matrox card) with the SCART-RGB cable.

[user]

Originally posted by dZeus
VGA connector, i.e. not the DVI

That means:

I have to connect a "normal" VGA connector with a long (suited to my required length) cable , and at the other end of cable a Scart connector ?

[MJA]

does the G550 have the breakout cable?

If so, ouldn't you just use an RGB - Scart converter? You can buy them in virtually ALL electronics shops. (Obviously you'd need a length of screened RGB extension cable as well.

[user]

I will have the breakout cable, but that is S-Video out ?

Edit:
It will have Composite and S-Video out.

RGB out directly from VGA out, should be better (even as S-video), or not, with Matrox 550 ?

[MJA]

If it's like my G400 cable then the breakout cable will be a 15-pin VGA adapter that is split into two short leads, on s-video and one Composite.

The Composite (a phono output) can, along with a left and right (phono)sound outputs from your sound card, be fed directly into a scart converter like this one:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/catalog/pictures-all/LargeImages/ModuleImages/11961i0.jpg

That works with my TV okay.

[MJA]

You can also go for the 'de-luxe' verson which can take the s-video connector as well.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/catalog/pictures-all/LargeImages/ModuleImages/13372i0.jpg

[dZeus]

MJA: he doesn't want s-video or composite connection to his tv, he wants a RGB connection, which the Matrox G400/G450/G550 _natively_ support. You only need to make the cable according to the schematics as linked from this thread. It provides better image quality than s-video or composite.

Buying a VGA SCART-RGB converter is stupid because the G400/G450/G550 already natively support it.... thus it should most likely provide better quality as well.

[dZeus]

Originally posted by user
That means:

I have to connect a "normal" VGA connector with a long (suited to my required length) cable , and at the other end of cable a Scart connector ?

Yup, though you probably want to limit the length of the cable as much as possible, because if you make the cable too long, the image quality will suffer.

[user]

many thanks, Zeus is God, he understands me


Funny, that Matrox does not sell these cables...
RGB from PC to TV should be cool.