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WuGgaRoO

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8 Jun 2003, 7:30am

i wanna be able to play gamecube and ps2 on my monitor...BUT i also want it to look as nice as a TV...how does one accomplish this?

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Xyphus

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8 Jun 2003, 4:24pm

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vi...xtvisionn6.htm

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dodo

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8 Jun 2003, 7:31pm

Well, I see what you are looking for in the Linux kit:

http://www.us.playstation.com/hardwa...SCPH-97047.asp

However, i cannot find it being sold online separately.

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WuGgaRoO

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12 Jun 2003, 4:25pm

hmmm...the lik that xypus sent me seems pretty good...do u know if the quality is any good? cuz ive seen a bunch of them in the past, and NONE of them do justice to the gamecubes graphics

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dodo

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16 Jun 2003, 11:15pm

I dont konw what resolution the gamecube can pump out, but a tv is much lower resolution than your monitor, which can be why the graphics look crappy. In fact, I think the TV is only a 640*480 resolution, correct me if i am wrong.

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DoM-aL

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20 Jun 2003, 1:34am

Normal tv runs at 320x200 and hd tv's run from 640x480 to 1024x768

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primesuspect

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20 Jun 2003, 1:44am

yeah, but the lower res of the tv acts as a full-time full screen anti alias, so everything looks really good.. I pipe my gamecube through my AIW Radeon 7500 onto my TV and the quality is excellent. I think it almost looks better than direct to TV....

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dodo

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20 Jun 2003, 3:09am

yeah, but how far do you sit from your TV, a few feet? How far do you sit from your monitor, a few inches? No wonder you can see the quality differences on your monitor.

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WuGgaRoO

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20 Jun 2003, 4:29am

i like the looks of that product....but its soo expensive

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Dexter

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22 Jun 2003, 9:06am

Dom-Al wrote:

Normal tv runs at 320x200 and hd tv's run from 640x480 to 1024x768

Ummmm....No. NTSC is 720 x 480 at 60 Hz. PAL Video is 720 x 576 at 50 Hz. HD video is 1920 x 1080, usually at 60 Hz. Most people who know a little about HD will recognize the term 1080i, the "i" meaning interlaced as opposed to progressive.

Most of the problem in viewing TV on VGA and vice versa is refresh rate differences (Hz) and video size. To view TV video on a VGA monitor, spend the money and get a good scan convertor. You may notice some slight distortion in shapes, but there is often no way around that. Or, get a good LCD monitor with Video inputs (mine takes Composite, S-video and HD inputs), although you may find that Composite and S look a bit "soft" on LCD if you are up too close to it.

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WuGgaRoO

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22 Jun 2003, 3:11pm

i dunno about the lcd screen...ive heard horrible things about how they ghost etc

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Dexter

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22 Jun 2003, 5:02pm

My LCD does not ghost at all (Samsung 151MP) and I play video on it quite a bit (Composite input and HD input.) I don't use a TV Tuner card in it though, maybe that's what you have heard about ghosting? A properly connected input should not ghost, but a TV signal from a weak antenna signal or bad cable TV channel might ghost, just like it would on your living room TV. But plugging your game boxes in to one should not ghost it at all.

Go to your local electronics dealer and tell them you want to buy an LCD, but you really want to see how a Gamecube / PS2 / Xbox look like plugged in to one. If they don't want to go through the hassle of hooking up a console to the LCD, make sure you let them know how serious about the purchase you are, and always ask for their business card / employee number (so they know the commision will definitely come their way.)

Check it out for a few mins, then tell them you need to shop around a bit more and think about it.

Next time I bring my LCD home from the office I will plug my kid's Gamecube into it and see how it looks.

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WuGgaRoO

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22 Jun 2003, 5:51pm

thanks bro...tell me how it looks

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Nolf-Job

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4 Aug 2003, 6:16pm

Hey Wuggaroo if you check out www.lik-sang.com (i think thats it) they have a component to vga converter box for 60 bucks. I was trying to do the same thing except with my xbox. Hopefully I can pick one up soon. Sorry I didn't include the actual link, I'm at work and those brickwalls are great

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Mancabus

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4 Aug 2003, 6:58pm

Software-wise the best program I found to play XBOX and Gamecube from my video in on my TI4600 is Cyberlink's PowerVCR.

And What about Audio? All i thought of doing was merging the two RCA's into on stereo jack and plugging in to line in on the sound card. which only gave me one speaker of sound if i remember correctly.

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dodo

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4 Aug 2003, 7:41pm

Mancabus said
And What about Audio? All i thought of doing was merging the two RCA's into on stereo jack and plugging in to line in on the sound card. which only gave me one speaker of sound if i remember correctly.

Well, this should give you 2 channels, assuming you have the correct cable.
This guy should do it: http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D883
Note: This one is not the correct one http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D889

Also be sure to have it in the line-in jack and not the microphone.

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Mancabus

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5 Aug 2003, 5:16am

dodo said
Well, this should give you 2 channels, assuming you have the correct cable.
This guy should do it: http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D883
Note: This one is not the correct one http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D889

Also be sure to have it in the line-in jack and not the microphone.

~dodo

I don't quite see the difference, other than one being gold-plated and the other being just gold, but if you say so ok. They don't have the one that I actually bought listed, although I did buy it about two years ago for some other application, so I guess that's why. Mine actually looks like a Y, two cables into one plug.

Maybe I'll give that a try and see what happens, thanks dodo.

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Gargoyle

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5 Aug 2003, 5:25am

I had an old STB TV Tuner card. STB - bought by 3dfx. 3dfx - bought by nvidia. Moral of the story - had to seek 3rd party drivers.

I found some that were awesome, and they deinterlaced the signal and did all sorts of other black voodoo to it and made it look awesome. I used it until CompUSA gave me my All-in-Wonder for a warranty trade-in. The AIW can't match the tricked-out drivers for that old card. I sorta miss it

Why is Gargy's rambling sorta relavant? My monitor WAS my TV for 2 years in the dorm and I played all my console games on it. Boy did they look good on that old card. Not that they look bad on the AIW though.

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profdlp

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5 Aug 2003, 7:07am

Mancabus said

dodo said
Well, this should give you 2 channels, assuming you have the correct cable.
This guy should do it: http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D883
Note: This one is not the correct one http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=274%2D889

Also be sure to have it in the line-in jack and not the microphone.

~dodo

I don't quite see the difference, other than one being gold-plated and the other being just gold, but if you say so ok. They don't have the one that I actually bought listed, although I did buy it about two years ago for some other application, so I guess that's why. Mine actually looks like a Y, two cables into one plug.

Maybe I'll give that a try and see what happens, thanks dodo.

Look closely at the 3.5mm plug. One has a single black insulator band to separate the signal and ground. The other has two black insulators - they separate the ground and the left & right stereo signals. (The L & R signals can share a common ground - that's why there are three gold sections instead of four).

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dodo

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5 Aug 2003, 8:05pm

Exactly. The adaptor needs to be stereo. If its mono, you will only get one channel.

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