S-Video Problems

[burke_01]

Here's something I haven't run into before. I have three early 2000's flat-screen CRT televisions. Two are Daewoo and one is a Toshiba and all three are exhibiting the same issue. It started when I tried to connect my 3DO FZ-1 via s-video cable to one of them. I got no picture. The second and third televisions gave the same result. My first thought was "Bad cable" so I tried hooking the 3DO up to my LCD television via the same s-video cable. Worked fine.

 

I then thought that maybe all of the s-video jacks on the CRT's had crapped-out and replaced them. Same issue. I then purchased an RCA video to s-video cable for a couple bucks just for giggles and tried that. It worked both ways with the 3DO, proving all the jacks were indeed functional (though the picture was less-than-desirable).

 

Just for the heck of it, I tried hooking up my DirecTV box through one of the CRT's with the s-video cable. No picture.

 

So my question is, why would there be a difference between running s-video to a CRT vs. an LCD? Could the cable still be the culprit? And why would it work when converting the signal from s-video to composite and vice-versa but not straight through s-video?

 

Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Osgeld]

I used to have a toshiba like you discribed, and if memory serves me correct I had to use the menu to set video to svideo rather than composite