Help with Ambery AV-8 s-video convertor

[Justin]

Hi guys 'n' gals,

i bought an Ambery AV-8 compasite/s-video to VGA adaptor http://www.ambery.com/vitoxgacoscs.html and i don't seem to be able to get the thing to work. It is hooked up to a Samsung 22" lcd monitor.

I have tried an xbox, saturn, CD32, megadrive and an A1200 with both compasite and s-video.

all i seem to get is a white screen, if i look at the screen from one side i can see that there is an image but as i said the screen itself is white.

anyone have any ideas?

cheers, Justin

 

[johnim]

hi justin is there any kind of reset on it maybe the brightness is up full or somthing

 

[Justin]

hi justin is there any kind of reset on it maybe the brightness is up full or somthing

doesn't seem to be any options or menus

only input source

 

[johnim]

is the psu correct voltage/amps

did you get it here if so did seller have simlar probs

are any ports loose or are cables ok

does it make a differnce on the switch setting

 

[Justin]

is the psu correct voltage/amps

did you get it here if so did seller have simlar probs

are any ports loose or are cables ok

does it make a differnce on the switch setting

yes i got it from here, but the seller had no problems

i tried various cables with no change, i'll do some more testing this evening

 

[Harrison]

I've got a similar Svideo and composite to VGA convertor, but mine has controls for a menu that you can change input, output resolution, brightness, contrast, screen position and size etc.

I use it with my PAL N64 with Svideo output.

It wasn't expensive so if interested I will find the ebay BIN listing for you later.

 

[davideo]

Have you tried playing with the VGA switch?

Dave G

 

[Justin]

Have you tried playing with the VGA switch?

Dave G

fnar

 

[Justin]

tried a different PSU and there is life, but the image is terrible, will put this down to a bad job and find a better solution

 

[Harrison]

Here is the one I'm using:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220898958318?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

 

[johnim]

yea i have 2 of them but 1 came from hongkong and 1 here

they are ok but upgraded to the gbs for miggy

cheap psu then justin

 

[Justin]

yeah seems to be, but even with the "good PSU" the image is terrible with no way to adjust contrast, colour, brightness etc

rubbish bit of kit lol

 

[roy_bates]

what are you using as a signal source justin?

i thought these where s-video not cvbs.is the picture really blurry?

 

[Justin]

what are you using as a signal source justin?

i thought these where s-video not cvbs.is the picture really blurry?

not so much blurry but too bright and wrong colours (red looks green etc)

i tried s-video and compasite, with different leads from CD32/Saturn/Megadrive/Amiga and Xbox, all the same