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    From Bill Marcum@21:1/5 to millinghill@yahoo.com on Thu Feb 18 08:46:11 2016
    On 2016-01-29, millinghill@yahoo.com <millinghill@yahoo.com> wrote:
    Hello,

    I followed this video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwomI7iGD3w
    to make a cable from my atari 800 monitor jack to my (modern HDTV) television.

    But when I tried it out, the audio worked, but it was just a monochrome video. When I switch to the RF jack, it's in color, but of lesser quality video. I'm pretty sure there are no stray wires touching anything.

    Any ideas what I may have done wrong?

    Thanks
    Theodore.

    The Atari 800 has separate luminance and chroma outputs. If your TV has an S-Video input (small round multi-pin socket) there are adapters, or I think
    the signals can be mixed with a few resistors.

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