I have noticed some frizzyness when using a pass through, but otherwise no trouble, as far as durability, mine seems fine, but I am not sure "how durable" it is. the other thing, which is obvious, some games don't support the VGA adapter, just FYI. Hope this is helpful.
VGA Box
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I understand that, but would you be using the dc, and the pc simultaeously? Once you turn it off, the monitor is fine again, I noticed a little distortion too, it could just be my monitor... because I tried this same vga adapter at home, on a 17' flat screen samsung monitor, and I tried it at work on an 18' samsung monitor, so maybe its the monitor or something else at play here.
ehnn, vga connectors are pretty solid, spent about 3 months swapping 2-3 times a day between d.c. and p.c. and it has yet to show any real wear. you shouldn't ever need to pull the rca plugs out (not usually as solid anyway). yes, ikaruga in vertical screen mode is AWSOME (even on a funky 15' mon that's got wavy color patterns from siting RIGHT in front of my right channel speaker)
They're both boxes, really, it's just that the "cable" has a very small box inline. Usually "boxes" have extra connectors so that they can pass through a signal from a PC and/or can switch to a composite output for games that don't support VGA (personally I prefer a VGA/RGB switch, but that requires a monitor with unusually wide hsync tolerance). Otherwise they're essentially the same thing; all the important stuff is done by the PVR's RAMDAC anyway, that's why some games don't support it.
Yeah, there's usually a 1/8" line-out jack for computer speakers.
It is not merely awesome, it is mandatory. Playing it in horizontal is simply unconscionable. :rant
I'm still trying to find a VGA box that allows both my PC and DC to be hooked up at the same time and switch between the two. I don't want to have to swap cables all the time. The only display I have in my apartment is my CRT monitor. (I'm going minimalistic) 🙂
Can anybody pass along a good link?
Can anybody pass along a good link?
It would be quite easy to build or modify one to do that racketboy ,with some basic soldering abilities and a bit of thinking...I am certain that there are boxes out there that could do that though,you are probably not looking hard enough 😉
i got one of HAIS VGA box and I hooked up to PDP using its VGA connection as well as S-Video. from memory I paid something like $20 or so for new box set two years ago...
for hooking both DC and VGA monitor I've heard there is one but the passthru quality isn't that great. I did look around for alternative and only thing I found was Y adaptor that was used to hook up two monitor to single PC but the adaptor cost almost $80 which was bit too high... 😛
cheers
for hooking both DC and VGA monitor I've heard there is one but the passthru quality isn't that great. I did look around for alternative and only thing I found was Y adaptor that was used to hook up two monitor to single PC but the adaptor cost almost $80 which was bit too high... 😛
cheers
