[mythtvnz] My New Setup

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Kirk <davidrkirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>> My biggest issue is still with connecting to the TV.  It is a
>>> Panasonic CRT and it doesn't have any digital inputs.
>>
>> Posting the URL to the pdf of the TV manual often proves worthwhile to quickly get to the dogma.
>
> The TV is a Panasonic TX-76PW60A.
> https://support.panasonic.co.nz/docstore/TX76pw60%20book.pdf
>
>>> My motherboard
>>> doesn't have any analogue outputs, so I'm still running on my 17" LCD
>>> monitor.
>> Does it have VGA?   Again posting the URL to the manual is a great way to be user friendly to the interested listers.
>
> The TV has composite, component, S-Video and SCART connectors.  Some
> of them are SCART to comosite and S-Video connectors.
>
> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M85M-US2H.
> http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-m85m-us2h_v1.3-e.pdf
>
> It has 3 outputs.  VGA, DVI and HDMI.  I have tried VGA to composite,
> VGA to component and VGA to S-Video adapters and I can't get a picture
> from any of them.
>
> If there was a way to get it working with the existing TV it would
> definately save me a lot of hassle.

Your ScART input supports component so this should work:

http://jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=AC1605

But you are probably better off putting the money into a new TV!