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Northchild
02-05-2003, 05:13 PM
I dislike most of the programming on television and would rather spend my days curled up next to the warm glow of the PC monitor. Does anyone know if I could set up an XBox so that it outputs to my computer monitor and PC speaker system? Would this be unusual or would quality suffer? Expensive?
beaker
02-05-2003, 08:16 PM
The dreamcast had an HD15 pin monitor hookup that you could get. I wouldn't doubt that there is something similar for all the consoles out there. The quality over the tv was amazing on the dreamcast hooked up to a monitor. As for the sound, just go pick up an rca to stereo jack converter
Valkyrien
02-05-2003, 08:54 PM
You can probably find an RCA to VGA adapter on www.ebgames.com. I thought I saw one of those there while i was looking for something else :)
Valkyrien
02-05-2003, 09:00 PM
Found it! And the best part, you can install this without havign to reach behind your PC all the time to unscrew and rescrew. Go here (http://www.ebgames.com./ebx/categories/products/product.asp?pf_id=232264)
aYs
02-05-2003, 09:01 PM
you can plug the xbox into a svhs- or composit-in if there is one and the audio into your line-in

you'll need a cable to split video and audio signals (or use a scart connector. the xbox has one, right?)

well, the quality is better but you'll see the low output resolution of the xbox
(looks better on tv because of the blurry sreen)

those connectors are cheap
CgFX
02-06-2003, 02:55 AM
There are a number of VGA adapters for the Xbox, most of them with passthru so you can tie it to your computer+monitor.

They fall into two main groups which are very very different.

One group uses the S-video out of the xbox and an off-the-shelf Y/C to RGB ASIC. This has poor video quality in my opinion.

The other uses the YPrPb component output of the Xbox (very close to RGB) to get to VGA/analog RGB. These are more expensive but the quality improvement is significant.
bentllama
02-26-2003, 09:53 AM
go to www.liksang.com
Sieb
02-26-2003, 07:26 PM
Depending on your video card, like if you have a Gforce4Ti4600, you can use your svideo or RCA inputs. Same if you have at TV tuner card. I did this with my usb tv tuner on my laptop, I was sittin there playing my PS2 on my 15" laptop screen, hehe. Granted, you need some sort of TV tuning software. If not, then a vga adaptor is the way to go.
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