On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Andreas Nyholm wrote:

>Hello
>
>Anyone of you tried to build one of those S-Video or Composite to Coax, to
>use between computer and TV?
>I tried some google searches and found several commercial ones, but thet
>cost atleast 30$ but who want to buy one if it's possible to build one
>yourself.. :) I didn't find any good How-to-build pages so that's why I'm
>looking for your opinion.
>The reason I want to build one is to save 2*10m RCA cable. So I'm looking
>for a cheap version :) (Not more than about 10$)

The short answer is, that a $30 YC mixer is too cheap to avoid the
artifacts it may cause on the screen, and that $10 will buy you a lot more
than 20m of surplus cable on a partially used reel. Try the people who
install CCTV video cameras. It has to be 75 ohms.

Peter

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