Thread: SD Virgin to Dell monitor
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Old 02-12-2011, 13:06   #9
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Re: Virgin to Dell monitor
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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
It's not easy. SCART has the sync on the composite video PIN, whereas VGA has separate syncs. You need something like this

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-vga...er-cable-37141

(And see the warning about sync rates)
Exactly... not worth the risk/effort/cost in my opinion, especially as the results can often look worse than composite apparently.

I think the only luck I've had hooking up something made for regular TVs into a PC style monitor is using a VGA -> Component converter on one of my PS2 consoles, plugged into a Sony monitor and using a special piece of PS2 homebrew software to bump the display mode up into something the monitor would understand. Older CRTs like that work because Sony was a big supporter of Sync-on-Green, though oddly their newer LCD TVs don't support that on the VGA inputs which is disappointing in cases where the TV only has one Component input which is most of them these days. As a result, with my current TV I can't have both Xbox 1 and PS2 plugged in at once without using a Component splitter which introduces lots of noise to the picture.


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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
The OP has a double problem because AFAIK there are no video senders that support RGB.

Small TVs are very cheap these days
Exactly, a cheap panel TV which can easily move between display modes and types is by far the better option. They're basically the much-improved modern version of older multisync CRT monitors which were often expensive and disappointing.
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