Topic: HELP!!! S-Video help.....

[Chris1228]

I have a Samsung TV that I purchased about 2 and half years ago. It has an S-Video input. I have a gamecube with a 3rd party S-Video cable. When I try to play any games through the S-video mode on my TV, all of the colors are distorted by what looks like little digital blocks. All text, black and white, and gray appear fine. Whenever there is a block of color this distortion appears. The s-video on the TV is fine, I rune my Satellite through that.

Has anyone seen this??? Does this mean that the cable is bad??? Please help

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

It's likely a bad s-video cable, with severe insulation/shielding problems.
Some s-video cables only send black&white images when they break, too.

Feel free to try a different 3rd party cable; I happen to use Pelican brand cuz I often found them on clearance at stores.

[Chris1228]

Pelican is the brand I am using. I have tried TWO of them and they both do the same thing, the cables also exhibit this behavior on my buddies TV as well. I plunked down $35 for a monster cable today. If that doesn't work its got to be the game cube. I don't know what else it can be.