Dell Inspiron 3800 System Reference Manual page 100

Ports and Connectors: Dell Inspiron 3800 System Reference
TV-Out S-Video Connector
You can connect a television with an S-video connector to your computer.
location of the TV-out S-video connector on your computer.
To connect the cables, follow these guidelines:
If your television uses an S-video cable for video input, connect one end of that cable
directly to your computer's TV-out S-video connector and connect the other end into your
television's S-video connector. Connecting the S-video cable that came with your
television to the television's S-video connector and to the TV-out S-video connector on
your computer allows your computer to output video information to your television.
If your television uses a composite video cable for video input, you need both the
composite TV-out adapter cable that came with your computer and the composite video
cable that came with your television. Connecting these cables together, and then
connecting them to your television's composite video-in connector and your computer's
TV-out S-video connector, allows your computer to output video information to your
television.
To connect a television that has a composite video-in connector to your
computer's TV-out S-video connector, perform the following steps:
1. Connect the composite TV-out adapter cable that came with your computer
to your computer's TV-out S-video connector.
2. Connect the other end of the composite TV-out adapter cable to your
television's composite video cable.
3. Connect the composite video cable to your television's composite video
connector.
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1 Microphone-in connector
2 Line-out connector
3 Line-in connector
4 TV-out S-video connector
Figure 2 shows the