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G4 -> TV. What should I use?
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: a small village in western Poland
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Hi there.
It's not a matter of having a home cinema. G4 is useless for this task. But I do need to output video from a G4 to a TV set (CRT), while keeping the current VGA connection to the monitor.
The G4 has an AGP NVidia FX5200 reflashed for Mac compatibility. All PCI slots are free.
I thought I should use a PCI video card with DVI or ADC and hook up and DVI to Composite Video (or ADC to Composite?) adapter from a Powerbook.
Now the question is - if it has been tried before and what is the best PCI graphic adapter that would allow me to do it?
What I do not want to do is:
- getting a new machine,
- swapping the current AGP card for another one with multiple outputs
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Wojtek
All Macs still running: iMac G3 Trayloader 333MHz, iMac G3 350 MHz, iMac G4, PM G4 DP 1.6 GHz, 2 x eMac 1 GHz, PBG4 12" 1.5 GHz, Mac SuperMini™ C2D 2.33GHz/802.11n/200GB, Mac Pro Quad Core 2.0 GHz/4GB.
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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Any Radeon with an S-video output will work. Either directly S -> TV, or with the usual ATi S -> composite adapter, which gives you an RCA line-out jack. Try picking up a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition. If you get an ATi card used, the S -> composite adapter may be missing. You'd have to hunt it up separately, on newegg perhaps.
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I use my Sawtooth G4 Mac with a Radeon 8500 and s-video out on my old CRT TV with iTheater).
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