OT: Vegas preview via 7-pin HDTV cable (R, G, B)

Nathan_Shane wrote on 7/31/2007, 11:59 AM

Well, today I was looking into how to preview Vegas 7 to my HDTV and started researching HDMI video cards (such as the Intensity) and also found a couple NVIDIA / ATI chipset video cards with HDMI output ports on them. However, I also learned that my current NVIDIA 7600 GT card has a 7-pin HDTV connection (R,G,B) that I had thought was just a standard s-video connection, but that proved wrong. So I found the special cable that fits this 7-pin HDTV connection...now I just got to get a R,G,B cable to make the connection.

Looking at my HDTV's manual, it shows that it's YPbPr connection supports 1080i at 30Hz. So does this mean I should be able to successfully make use of this connection and be able to preview Vegas at 1080i on my HDTV? Is this correct?

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Nathan_Shane wrote on 7/31/2007, 2:33 PM

Just to answer my own question - IT WORKS!!! I had to enable HDTV in the BIOS. Once I started Vista back up, it recognized the connection on its own and then I was able to select a video resolution of 1920 x 1080. So Vegas does preview with this connection.

Just to elaborate on some tech-things. My ASUS motherboard has an on-built NVIDIA graphics ports (DVI and VGA) but also came with a connection card/cable that attaches to the motherboard for HDTV output. This included card has the RGB, and S-Video out ports, so I used the RGB ports since my HDTV says its own RGB connections support 1920 x 1080 resolutions.

In addition, my system still has another NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT PCIe card installed. This graphics card is what is connected to my 22" Acer LCD widescreen monitor.