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Geek Culture / COM to RCA?

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 07:07
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I was just digging through my cable drawer, and I stumbled across a cable that I don't remember seeing before... On one end it has a standard COM male connector, and on the other end it splits up into standard RCA - Red White and Yellow, as well as Black Purple and Grey... Anyone know what this is used for? I just recently lost my TV in my room because the one in our living room broke, and I was wondering if I could use this to play my 360 on my computer. Any Ideas???

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JoelJ
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 07:56
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http://www.cablesnmor.com/vga-rca-cable.html

one of thems?

That's for plugging your computer into your TV.

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 08:06
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Sort of like like except for instead of VGA it's a COM connector. (Didn't I explain that clearly?)

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 22:44
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mamaji4
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 22:51 Edited at: 23rd May 2009 22:53
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Serial COM port connectors(DB-9 and DB-25) on the cable end, are generally female. If it's a male connector it could be for a parallel port. How many pins are there on the connector? There are other connectors which also feature connectors which look similar to serial/parallel ones.

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 23:02
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Here is a pic that I should have taken with the first post.

If you can't see it well, there are 9 holes in the COM end of the cable.

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mamaji4
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Since they are RCA cables they are most probably video R,G,B cables. The EGA graphics adapter now outdated had a nine pin configuratin similar to the COM port. So it might be an EGA connector carrying the Horizontal and Vertical sync signals also. Not really sure.

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 23rd May 2009 23:36
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Apparently it is... kinda funny how it fits into the COM port perfectly...

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mamaji4
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Don't throw it away yet. It's perfect for interfacing an external circuit to the COM port signals.

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Wazoo117
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Posted: 24th May 2009 00:25
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I had no intention of throwing it away, I just thought maybe I could use it to display my 360 on my computer...

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Use a HDMI - DVI-D converter, its the best way. Or use what I used to use: a 360 av cable to vga adapter, but on widescreens there are bars at the top and bottom (even when you set the resolution to the screen res!)
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Wazoo117
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Yea, I saw one of those in Best Buy, I wanted to get it, but had no money at the time...

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