[Q] Question about / problem with Samsung RCA A/V cable

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I purchased a Samsung digital camera recently, which records video. It came with a 3.5mm to RCA (yellow/red/white) cable to connect the camera to TV.

Shouldn't this very same cable work for the Vibrant? I connected it to a couple of different TVs, but all I'm getting is black screen with white lines. I tried plugging in each cable individually into the video in on my TV, but all 3 seem to produce garbage (sort of like a scrambled cable channel). Red and White do work for sound, but none work for video. If I switch TV out on the Vibrant to PAL, I'm getting pretty much the same thing except with bad tracking.

So... are 3.5mm RCA cables not all created equal? I know there are some cables that have video signal on a different color cable, but I can't get any of the colors to output video.

Thanks in advance.

Hi. Actually, I started a similar thread a few weeks back. The short of it is this:

1. Not all cables are created equally. I tried 4 sets of cables before getting one that works. Note each cable was of a different origin - 3 sets were from devices I had collected over the years. I ended up buying a caked that worked from Radio Shack.

2. For the cable that worked, it required connecting the red into the yellow port, and plugging the yellow into the red port.

3. Some tvs will not work regardless of the cable used.

The key is that it is not your phone. I had gone that route as well.

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Originally Posted by pyrusman

Hi. Actually, I started a similar thread a few weeks back. The short of it is this:

1. Not all cables are created equally. I tried 4 sets of cables before getting one that works. Note each cable was of a different origin - 3 sets were from devices I had collected over the years. I ended up buying a caked that worked from Radio Shack.

2. For the cable that worked, it required connecting the red into the yellow port, and plugging the yellow into the red port.

3. Some tvs will not work regardless of the cable used.

The key is that it is not your phone. I had gone that route as well.

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Thanks... I ordered a Zune cable, which I think someone mentioned works. We'll see

I have an apple ipod video cable from a few years ago I used with my ipod video 5.5 it works all colors acting as they should.

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