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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.

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.

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 works, but unfortunately only in Black and White if you have an old TV (like mine) which doesn't support S Video properly.

The earlier reviews were encouraging but I expected to have trouble. Sure enough, I couldn't get any sort of picture or sound. For all I know, the cables may be worth 5 stars but what do you award if nothing happens?
For a start, the instructions (such as they are) are not in English and there's nothing about what you need at the computer end. My tv has a D-sub 15-pin connector but my PC has only one video socket.
A phone call to the supplier didn't solve the problem; he said the tv's PC connection only works with laptops anyway (not sure that's true). He said I should change the display properties in Control Panel to allow for tv as well as monitor but I could find only the option of an extra monitor and that doesn't work.
Now I've found a website that pointed me in the right direction. I needed a Y-splitter at the computer end to take the s-video lead. Then I did, indeed, need to go to the display properties and enable the TV connection (this varies according to video card). Having got the picture, I then found I could get sound by putting the pin into the headphone socket. Now I want to award four stars