How to use Monitor as TV... if possible

[MathsPar]

Getting an Xbox 360 soon but in September I'm moving back on campus at University where the rooms are very small so I don't want to have things I don't need. Which is why I would like to use my current monitor for my PC and for my Xbox 360. Also by not having a TV I wouldn't have to pay a TV license fee.

I know you can use TVs as outputs for the PC but haven't seen a monitor used as a screen for a games console so not 100% sure if this is even possible. The only problem I can see is that the connection from my monitor to my PC looks unique and it doesn't have your typical AV connections.

So are there adapters out there that I could use to plug the 360 connections into?

[Thrax]

What type of connections do you have on the back of your monitor?

Just VGA? DVI? Composite?

[MathsPar]

Just XGA (I think that's what it is), basically I just googled the registration code and found someone selling identical one on ebay,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-Advent-ADV15T-TFT-Monitor-Boxed-in-Original-Package_W0QQitemZ160125849644QQihZ006QQcategoryZ174QQcmdZViewItem

So that guy has most of the details.

[shwaip]

if you just want to use the xbox 360, you can get a cable like this:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/

[MathsPar]

Ugh, just checked the back of my monitor and the only available connection is for audio, ADVENT have connected the XGA cable permanently to the monitor. Is there a way I could feed the Xbox 360 connection through my PC and out to the monitor?

Or any way to attach something to the end of the monitor cable? I know this is all a bit of a stretch but would be great if I could get something to work.

Good link though shwaip that was the kind of idea I had in mind before I realised the cable is permanently stuck.

[MathsPar]

I think since the cable is permanently connected that I should give up on this idea with this monitor. So I think I'll ebay the monitor or sell it some other way.

Any recommendations on a half decent monitor with better connections at the back without being too pricey?


EDIT: No need, just been speaking to my friend who's a bit of an Xbox 360 know-it-all and he assured me that the cable linked above can still be connected to the end of the monitors cable with a female-female connector. :)

Thanks for the link!

[edcentric]

There are a ton of good 17" and 19" LCDs out there.
The thing that I don't know is if you find one with two inputs (DVI from your computer and adapter cable to the sub-D from the Xbox) can you switch between them?