I Want To Use My Old LCD PC Monitor As My TV Monitor

Question

The Monitor Has A (NONDETACHABLE) VGA Cable And I Want To Connect It To My Standard Sky Box. I Want A Solution To Connect It To My Sky Box And I Am Willing To Pay Up To £20 For A Adaptor Or What Ever I Need

Answer 1

I think you would have to buy a SCART to VGA cable then get a small adapter to convert the permanent cable you have on your monitor to female so you can connect the two cables.

To get audio you will need the red and white cables and connect them to an audio device, you could also use RCA cables.

Answer 2

if you have a sky hd box you could just get a dvi to vga adapter with a dvi to hdmi lead.

there are external tv tuners with video inputs you can conect to a vga monitor but they cost in excess of £40.(maplin electronics)

if you just want a cheap converter box go on to ebay, you can find them for around £10 + delivery, some of them have inbuilt tuner for terrestrial, only thing is the cheap ones have to come from hong kong / china

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you will also need a scart to rca adapter and connect the audio out to an hi-fi.

be carefull about scart to vga cables they are not compatible with all monitor types ( monitor must support a horizontal scan rate of 15.625KHz) specially monitors only designed for computer use.

Answer 3

Go to tigerdirect.com. Look under video capture categories and they have different adapters to choose from.