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Two issues with VGA

  • 27-08-2009 10:40am
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    I'm honestly not sure where this belongs, feel free to move.

    I've got 2 separate but related issues that I feel certain are easily solved with a cable or some sort of switcher, but I'm not even sure what to google for.

    1. I have a TV with one normal PC input (VGA?). I've got my Xbox360 using it at the moment as that was the easiest way to give me a pretty good picture (the HDMI is already in use). Now I've got a PC that I want to hook up to this TV aswell. Is it possible to get something like a SCART switch box which will take both VGA in and output one that can be plugged into the TV?

    2. I have a (different) PC without a fancy dual monitor graphics card (and I'm not even sure it could take one). However I do have a spare monitor and was considering seeing if I could hook it up so that I could put up a resolution of say 2560x1024 (ie twice as wide as normal) and have it split off onto two monitors? That seems reasonable to me, but like I said I have no idea what to google for. Perhaps a dual monitor gfx would be cheaper/better?


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  • #2
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    What about a SCART > VGA cable and then a standard SCART switchbox?
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  • #3
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    Okay, I tell a lie, it's not a PC. It's a Dreamcast console that has a VGA box attached, so I could attach as normal through SCART but I get a better picture the VGA box so converting back to SCART makes no sense in this case.


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