Alright, I searched and found nothing. Here's what I want to do.

I've got a new monitor and I want to use its DVI input to connect my PS2/Xbox/etc to it. Any ideas where the hell I can find such a DVI to RCA (namely composite) cable? 3-6ft is fine with me.

1/4/2007 6:50:12 PM

not going to happen

1/4/2007 6:52:37 PM

Shit, I totally forgot that composite is analog. So I'm better off just using a vga to composite cable then?

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 6:56 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 6:56:38 PM

If you want to buy component cables, newegg has plenty of component to DVI adapters. Composite to DVI is just going to look like ass anyway.

1/4/2007 6:58:33 PM

I'd totally do component if my consoles' A/V connectors used 'em.

1/4/2007 6:59:37 PM

digital --> analog yeah ok, maybe
analog --> digital not happening without a mess or money

1/4/2007 7:10:32 PM

they do sell them you know...if you're hellbent on this. i got a set of PS2 component cables for less than 20 bucks the other day

1/4/2007 7:38:34 PM

^^every LCD monitor with a VGA cable goes from digital to analog to digital again.

1/5/2007 12:06:13 AM

^

Yes, and you believe the cable itself does the transcoding?

1/5/2007 12:59:26 AM

I want to do the same thing, but was thinking component to HDMI.

1/5/2007 3:24:46 AM

Ok, so what all will I need to play console games on my LCD? All it's got is a DVI and D-sub, and my consoles all use composite RCA. Will I need to use s-video to vga or some shit like that?

1/5/2007 11:23:20 PM

get a vga box

1/5/2007 11:39:31 PM

As has been previously mentioned, they make component cables for PS2, and I assume they make them for XBox as well.

1/5/2007 11:44:04 PM

^and that doesnt help him at all. He has a dsub and a dvi connector on the monitor.

As previously suggested, get a VGA box

1/6/2007 12:56:21 AM

as I said before, you can buy component to DVI switches, so actually, a PS2 component cable will help...it'll be about 4 bucks for the two combined off of newegg

1/6/2007 1:30:36 AM

How are you getting a price of $4 for a component to DVI converter and a PS2 component cable?

They make component video to DVI adapters, and they make component video to VGA adapters, but those depends on the device supporting certain modes of component video (and the receiving device to support certain modes of VGA video) to work properly. And also, they use DVI-I spec cables, which has pins for analog video signal, as a fallback (that AFAIK, was never really used). So, using such an adapter would yield absolutely no quality gains over just plugging in the component cables directly, or using a component to VGA adapter.

There are switches though that upconvert analog signals to DVI/HDMI signals, but these are going to be fairly expensive, since it requires high bandwidth ADC (there are some home theatre surround sound receivers that do this though).

If it's just a regular PS2 and Xbox, then the VGA modulator (that supports progressive scan) would be the best way to go (assuming the TV has no component inputs), plus the component cables for the PS2 and Xbox.

[Edited on January 6, 2007 at 1:59 AM. Reason : ]

1/6/2007 1:58:27 AM

find out if your monitor supports sync on green and you wont have to do sync splitting to view YPbPr

1/6/2007 2:04:13 AM

A decent vga box is going to run me up pretty good. This is what I've pieced together:

PS2/Xbox to component:
http://tinyurl.com/y74z5h

RCA coupler:
http://tinyurl.com/y8xoyz

component to vga:
http://tinyurl.com/w5v88

I realize this will result in a longer cable which = more signal degradation, but for ~$30, do I have a better option?

[Edited on January 16, 2007 at 12:32 AM. Reason : ]

1/16/2007 12:31:23 AM

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"find out if your monitor supports sync on green"

1/16/2007 1:15:31 AM

a lot of adapters like that component to vga cable, only work in one direction. it's usually a good rule of thumb that you can go from nice -> crap, but not the other way

1/16/2007 5:00:51 AM

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"Yes, and you believe the cable itself does the transcoding?"

ahahahahhahahahah

funniest response from Quinn ever!

Quote :

"get a vga box"

that's as good as it gets for this, sorry man...

/thread

[Edited on January 16, 2007 at 8:40 AM. Reason : s]

1/16/2007 8:34:07 AM