How to connect an old Panasonic NV-HS950B S-Video VHS Player to my modern VSA-LX805 AV Amplifier

[milleniumaire]

So I've now owned the VSA-LX805 (aka VSX-LX805) for nearly a year and I would like to connect an old Panasonic S-Video VHS tape player to my system to enable some old VHS tapes to be viewed.

I'm not exactly sure of the best way to do this and would appreciate some advice on which cable I should use.

On the back of the VHS player I see the following connections:

The manual for the VSA-LX805 amplifier shows the following:

When this VHS player was in use, around 20 years ago, I believe a SCART cable was used to connect it directly to the TV. Is there such a thing as a SCART to HDMI cable?

Would it be better to use the S-VIDEO + L/R Audio connections, but how would the other end of the cable look and what would it plug into on the amp?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ddude003]

Hi @milleniumaire, there are SCART to HDMI cables although I have never used one... Google is your frenemy... Or use the S-Video out yellow is the video and white/red are stereo audio...

Number 9 on your above A/V amp is audio input and 11 looks like Video in... You will need 3 RCA male style cables or you may be able to find a single cable which bundles all 3 into a single AV cable, again RCA male on both ends... Again Google is your frenemy and Amazon usually has this kind of consumer AV gear and accessories... Good luck!!!

 

[milleniumaire]

Hi @milleniumaire, there are SCART to HDMI cables although I have never used one... Google is your frenemy... Or use the S-Video out yellow is the video and white/red are stereo audio...

Number 9 on your above A/V amp is audio input and 11 looks like Video in... You will need 3 RCA male style cables or you may be able to find a single cable which bundles all 3 into a single AV cable, again RCA male on both ends... Again Google is your frenemy and Amazon usually has this kind of consumer AV gear and accessories... Good luck!!!

Thanks for the response.

I have done lots of Googling and examining of potential products, but nothing stands out as being a definite solution. The SCART to HDMI converters get mixed reviews with comments that the picture quality isn't great and that the products are of poor quality and so don't last long. They also seem to require power to drive the electronics.

I have seen some "s-video" cables, which don't use electronics, but it is difficult to determine if they definitely support s-video and I'm not sure what connections must be used on the amplifier end.

You yourself state I need "3 RCA male style cables". My understanding is this will not provide the better s-video quality.

On the "Super" VHS player, there is S-VIDEO, VIDEO, and Left and Right Audio connections. Yellow, white and red connectors will give Video and Audio but it will not provide the better S-Video signal, which I believe requires use of the 5 pin DIN connection or the SCART connection. If the 5 pin DIN connection is used for S-VIDEO, the white and red RCA connectors are also required for stereo sound. I assume the yellow video connector would not be needed when using the 5 pin DIN connector, but I'm not 100% sure about this.

So, assuming I'm able to get a cable with a 5 pin DIN connector and 2 RCA connectors for audio, what needs to be on the other end of that cable? The amp doesn't have a 5 pin DIN socket! I had assumed it would be the component video sockets (number 11) and I assume these would only carry video, so 2 white and red speaker connections would also be required, but I'm guessing. Unfortunately, the manual isn't very helpful.

Rather than having to use a poor quality powered SCART to HDMI converter, I'm swaying more to using the 5 pin DIN socket and RCA sockets, but don't know how these would connect to the amp!