CCTV - connectors or advice on new system

foggymind

Hi folks. Thought I'd try here first as the problem is we have an old CCTV system, the cameras are fine but I want to upgrade to a hard drive based system. The cameras are not bnc connectors but are an s-video connector as we want to retain the sound as well as the picture. We haven't used the system for a couple of years when it went wrong and I want to get it working again but I have never been able to find a system that takes s-video feeds or a connector to change the s-video to bnc. Any ideas. I'd rather not get a new camera as we have since built a conservatory and can not access the back camera now and I would like to keep a two camera system. Is it possible to cut off the s-video connector and put on bnc or are they totally different cables?

Thank you for looking

googler

S video has four conductors, bnc works with coaxial (2).

No adaptor or converter plug will help you. You need some kind of HDD box or powered video converter that takes s vid as an input

foggymind

I had hoped that there might be an easier option but considering the amount of wiring that would involve I think we are going to have to bite the bullet and get an entirely new system.

Thank you for the reply

neilwoods

Are you sure they are s-connector, some old system's had a round 4 or 5 pin din connector.

If s-connector then there may be a way, bit of a workaround but possible. There is an adapter, s-connector to phono and then use phono to BNC. Then the BNC would connect to DVR. But that would only do the picture (if it works)

Just maybe another way with sound, very long shot. Scart adapter 21 pin to 3 phono and SVHS and Scart socketset to input and another scart to s-video adapter set to output, hopefully that would give you video phono out and sound out. Like i said a very long shot.

All depends if it is s-connector, which i dont think it may be. As those din connectors carried power as well if i remember right

vaio

neilwoods wrote: »

.......All depends if it is s-connector, which i dont think it may be. As those din connectors carried power as well if i remember right

Easy to tell I'd have thought, if it's the only cable going to the camera it must be a signal & power hybrid rather than s vid