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Zer0wned Koopa                  Since: 12-09-05 From: Torrance, ca Last post: 6493 days Last view: 6493 days |
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| I know I've seen something similar (my friend had this adapter that allowed him to play his dreamcast on his moniter), so there has to be something. Alls I'm asking is if you guys have heard the name for a more generic (the one my friend had was only for the dreamcast, not for any coaxial [cable] to the moniter output) version of this.
[ps2 out]--->[adapter]--->[monitor in] thaaanks (edited by Zer0wned on 01-06-06 10:55 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828   Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6336 days Last view: 6336 days |
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Well you could just get a video capture card.  There's probably dozens if not hundreds of this sort of thing on the market. Ask at a local electronics store. |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6414 days Last view: 6414 days |
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| I could never find any of those things so what I went and did was bought a TFT screen that had scart and played T.V as well as acting as a monitor. | |||
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Zer0wned Koopa Since: 12-09-05 From: Torrance, ca Last post: 6493 days Last view: 6493 days |
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TFT screen is expensive O_o. I have an s-video out on my video card anyway, I'd be better off just buying a TV. Anyway, this town only has major places like best buy and curcuit city, so I doubt they'd have something like this for a reasonable price, costed me like 8 bucks for a coax splitter =/... I guess I'll check that vid cap card thing out... |
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DarkPhoenix Red Goomba Since: 12-27-05 Last post: 6340 days Last view: 6340 days |
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| You probably need a TV tuner or a line doubler/scaler/de-interlacer/upscan converter.
(you can also get TV tuners as PCI cards for your PC, such as with the ATI All-In-Wonder, or as USB devices, which are usually poor, but I'm referring to TV tuners that don't use a PC, unless otherwise stated) It depends on what you're trying to do on the monitor, though. For example, Gamecube, X-Box, and Dreamcast, as far as I remember, all natively support component video output, so you can find VGA adaptors (read as "you don't need the aforementioned device, just a cable") for them on Ebay and such (I got my gamecube VGA adaptor off Ebay for $15, and most games support it, just hold B when you start the system up). Playstation 2, and older systems, however, don't support component video, so for those systems, you need to buy a TV tuner or a line doubler to display the output on a monitor. The downside is, at the very least, you get what you pay for. Viewsonic sells a bunch of TV tuners for fairly cheap, and you can get others from lik-sang.com, like the VGA box, but the picture won't be great, because of the way they de-interlace, and it depends on how they try to sharpen the image (read as "cheap stuff might give you a blurrier picture" - and a lot of people have had problems with the ones sold on lik-sang not even working). Granted, it won't be any worse than putting it through an internal TV tuner card in your PC, which would give you more options, but suck up system resources, and then you'd need to keep your computer on to play games. I'm not a big fan of lugging a TV around to college, so I use a Viewsonic Nextvision N5 TV tuner (it was on sale at Best Buy), among other things, to use my monitor for everything. Also good to note, if the system supports component video, then it should look better on the monitor than it does on the TV, because usually it will display at a higher resoution. The downside, you'll still need the regular cables, and some little adaptors, to output the sound. Oh, another thing, if you're playing on an LCD monitor, you want to get a TV tuner that outputs at as close to the native resolution of your LCD monitor as possible. The further you get from the native resolution, the blurrier your picture will be (so if you get the N5, which outputs at 1024x768, the image will be best on a monitor with a native resolution of 1024x768). Not to say that it will get blurry enough to not be playable or anything. Same is true of the systems that support component video, actually. They likely output at 720p (that's 1280x720), so those would probably look best on a monitor that natively does 1280x1024. If you're using a CRT, however, none of this native resolution stuff applies, so just don't worry about it. Edit: BestBuy doesn't seem to carry the Viewsonic TV tuners anymore. I'd gotten mine last fall, but it's not listed on their website anymore. Fry's Outpost.com still has it, though, so if you have a Fry's Electronics store near you, then you might be able to get it there. (edited by DarkPhoenix on 01-12-06 01:57 AM) |
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