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Game Gear TV tuner - AV connector
Post Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:29 pm
What type of connector is the AV connector on GG TV tuner, its obviously not composite or s-video how would i output video from a vcr into it.
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:47 pm
It's a composite/mono audio connector. My digital still camera had a similar socket for video output; you can use an RCA-jack-to-stereo-minijack cable to attach it to a VCR.

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:00 pm

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TV Tuner manual AV port description
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Post Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:07 am
I got a hold of another scanner and did the full manual this time.

As an indexed PDF:
http://wow.dsm.id.au/images/tv-tuner.pdf

As 300dpi uncompressed tiffs:
http://wow.dsm.id.au/images/tv-tuner.zip
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:21 am
I want to make an A/V cable for this tuner - does anyone have information which mini-jack contact is responsible for audio and which for video? Is GND in the same place as a typical audio-stereo mini-jack? And the video signal uses one of the L/R audio contact?
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:17 pm
siudym wrote
I want to make an A/V cable for this tuner - does anyone have information which mini-jack contact is responsible for audio and which for video? Is GND in the same place as a typical audio-stereo mini-jack? And the video signal uses one of the L/R audio contact?


Cool to see interest in the ol TV tuner. I grew up with one :)
90s A/V is usually tip = video, ring = mono audio, sleeve = GND. Its a stereo 3.5mm jack.

However, lucky us, the community raised money to dump the service manual years ago:
https://www.smspower.org/Development/GameGearTVTunerPALServiceManual

See page 2. Confirms the above spec.

-Segasonicfan

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