Video Asylum

Posted by DavidLD (A) on August 28, 2004 at 04:45:57

In Reply to: Component DVD to my PC monitor under $50? posted by flak_monkey on August 27, 2004 at 14:44:17:

The description claims it will work, so buy one and report back on what happens.

However, for about $50, if you catch a sale, you can buy an entire 13-inch TV at any of the big chains, with composite video in terminals. I saw one in Wal Mart the other day I think was 49.95. The only reason I can think of that you would want to try to go to your Monitor is to save space in the dorm room, tho if you have a nice flat panel monitor this might be worth the experiment. I am clueless as to what the video quality would be. Historically this was done on a computer card, but the video image quality was poor with very shaky lines and ghosting. I wouldn't go in with the expectation that it would be better than or even as good as the standard $49 13-inch Wal Mrt TV, tho I could be pleasantly surprised.

Be aware that if this were that 15 inch LCD flat-panel Computer monitors now routinely retail for under $200. If converting a video TV signal so that ot looks right on an LCD monitor were cheap and simple to do we would be seeing 15-inch flat-panel TVs for $200 or less too, but they typically still run $400 or more, which leads me to the conclusion that this likely can't be done with acceptable image quality using a $44 box and cable. But on occasion, I have been pleasantly surprised on what works.