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RichMan
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 13:12 Edited at: 31st Mar 2008 13:13
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hi all, I've recently purchased an Xbox360 and all is well there, it plays fine on the TV in thye living room. BUT I really dont want to spend £50+ on a wireless bridge to get live. So I thought I could hook it up to my pc which is on a wireless network and I'd be off. I forgot tho that I need a monitor

Is it possable to put the red/yellow/white cables into the respective sockets on the front of my pc and then would it display on my pc monitor?

Has anybody else overcome this problem another way?

any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

RichMan

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RalphY
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 14:29 Edited at: 31st Mar 2008 14:29
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If you have a TV card it should work through that. I suggest you get yourself one of the VGA cables and use that though, you plug it directly into your monitor. Gives a much better picture quality than running through a TV card.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 14:48
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Does the Xbox 360 not have a standard VGA port? I seem to remember seeing a cable for one for £5 in Chips. The sound's easy to hack together - find a line in on your PC, plug in a £2 hifi adaptor with the same plugs on it and then plug them into one another.


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RichMan
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 15:32
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ok, I put the cabels in and turned it on. It seems to work ok, but my monitor is just showing my normal desktop. Am I missing something? and does it matter that the red white yellow sockets on the front of my pc are ina different order to the ones on th 360 output?
The 360 is: red white yellow


The PC is: White red yellow

thanks

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bitJericho
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 17:33
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Red is left side sound. Yellow is video. White is right side sound. It doesn't matter what order it is.


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RichMan
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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 17:35
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ok, so how would I get my monitor to display those inputs?

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jinzai
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These connections are for video IN, and not video OUT? If they are for input, you should have a utility that will display it to the monitor. Probably sitting in the system tray.
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RalphY
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No one here can really help you with what little info you have provided. You say you have sockets in the front of your comp, I'm assuming then you have one of those multi-connector panel thingys? What are the sockets connected to? A TV card? your graphics-card? nothing? If it's your graphics-card, does it actually support TV in?

If you do have a TV card or your graphic-card supports TV in, try googling for DScalar and use that.

Really though I would suggest you go with the VGA cable. Standard component connectors (the yellow video connector) do not support HD and progressive scan, whereas the VGA cable will support HD up to whatever your monitor supports.

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RichMan
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Posted: 1st Apr 2008 10:29
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I know I have a TV card cozI got a few sky channels once lol. I was going to get a VGA cable but the back of my monitor really isnt that assessable, and it would take alot of time to keep connecting and un connecting.

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Get a splitter, a nice one.

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Normally LCD monitors have DVI and VGA you could put your PC on DVI and the XBOX on VGA

I had my PS2 thru a TV card and the frame rate / quality wasn't outstanding.

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Van B
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If your monitor has different inputs, then you should use that, like a VGA connector and a DVI, hook up the DVI to your PC and the VGA to the 360 using a 360-VGA cable. The connections on the front of your PC should probably be ignored, I very much doubt these are inputs, probably outputs for your TV card going to a scart type input on a TV.

Besides, the quality you'd get through phono/scart would be terrible, probably look worse than with an old TV. Using the input on my TV card, with a GameCube, the quality was abysmal.

I would suggest picking up a cheap CRT monitor and 360-VGA cable, the quality from that is exceptional, and CRT's are practically free these days. You would need external speakers though, like a cheap pair of PC speakers would do it.


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