Connecting 9600XT to an HDTV

[Xylob the Destroyer]

My buddy has recently upgraded and rebuilt his HTPC and gave me his old Radeon 9600XT.
When he bought it, it came with this 7-pin HDTV output cable:


http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2550138

I have installed the card and connected it to my Sony KV-36HS420 via the component inputs on the back, but the picture is all wrong.
It's not sharp at all -- text cannot be read as it is too blurry.
Worse, it's all mono-chrome. When I first turned it on, everything was shades of blue. Playing with the Catalyst software finally got me to a point where everything was B&W, but that's it (not really much of an improvement).
I strongly suspect that my card is actually sending an S-Video signal through this ATI HDTV cable...
I have tried using every version of the 9600 series drivers and catalyst software (6.2 through 7.1) availble, but no luck.

Can anybody help me with this? Unfortunately, ATI's web-page is of no real help and the search feature is absolutely worthless.

Will one of these devices solve the problem?

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2537967

TIA!!

[cd090580]

Maybe I'm wrong, but these color cable seems to be fo an YCbCr output.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

that's correct.
My TV supports YCbCr. (see attached)

I checked this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCbCr
but I didn't quite get it.
Are you saying that I've got the cables plugged into the wrong jacks?
I just did them like they're color coded.

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[edDV]

The manual should detail how the Din cable should be used.

You need to set up the output for YPbPr in the Catalyst software. I've never used the XT9600 cable.

I do use the HD adapter with various ATI cards (8500DV, 9550, 9800) and it works. The YPbPr options show up in the Catalyst display settings when the adapter is mounted.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

The manual should detail how the Din cable should be used.

You need to set up the output for YPbPr in the Catalyst software. I've never used the XT9600 cable.

I do use the HD adapter with various ATI cards (8500DV, 9550, 9800) and it works. The YPbPr options show up in the Catalyst display settings when the adapter is mounted.

alas.....
dude didn't have the manual anymore. I downloaded it from ATI, but it is a generic for all 9600 series cards.
everything in the manual says to use a standard S-Video or composite cable, depending on connections available on the back of the card, and shows an S-Video in the pictures.
Mine has 1 VGA out, 1 DVI out, and one ATI 7-pin -- not the standard S-Video connection......

Looks like I'm gonna have to shell out the $30+ for the DVI-to-HDTV adapter??
ATI's site is kinda slight on the details for the product. Does it come with software, or does Catalyst detect it automatically when it's installed?

[edDV]

Try to get the correct manual. The ATI 9xxx cards split at the 9550. Anything below has no YPbPr capability. All cards above (including the 8500 and 8500DV) support YPbPr in various ways. Most common is YPbPr via the HD adapter. There are two types of adapters for VGA and DVI-I connectors. Essentially, the presence of the adapter causes the card to transcode RGB to YPbPr. Other cards have unique cable adapters.

The conversion to YPbPr will only happen if the Catalyst driver is set correctly for that output.

[jjhann]

Don't pay an arm and a leg for that dongle. There's hundreds of them on ebay.
I got mine for $5.99 and it works perfect.
You need to use that DVI-YPbPr dongle to get HD content on your tv.

[MJA]

Don't pay an arm and a leg for that dongle. There's hundreds of them on ebay.
I got mine for $5.99 and it works perfect.
You need to use that DVI-YPbPr dongle to get HD content on your tv.

this part cost only $5.27 at monoprice.com +$2.82 shipping

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10419&cs_id=1041901&p_id=...ormat=2&style=

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I got the adapter from ATI and it didn't work for shit....
ended up using a DVI to HDMI cable