Converting a LCD Monitor to work as a TV

Maxwell

Hi All,

I have a spare 19" LCD monitor at home and I thought I would use it as an lcd TV in a spare bedroom.

Can anyone suggest the best (and smallest/discreet) converter that I could get? I was hoping to fit the monitor into or onto the wall (its plaster board) and was hoping for something discreet was hoping of not having a big box hanging with it?

Any help from anyone?

Please?


...otherwise my wife wants me to get rid!

snappieT

I'll buy it if your wife wants to get rid, what model?!!!

rsynnott

Maxwell wrote:

Hi All,

I have a spare 19" LCD monitor at home and I thought I would use it as an lcd TV in a spare bedroom.

Can anyone suggest the best (and smallest/discreet) converter that I could get? I was hoping to fit the monitor into or onto the wall (its plaster board) and was hoping for something discreet was hoping of not having a big box hanging with it?

Any help from anyone?

Please?


...otherwise my wife wants me to get rid!

Ah, you've stumbled into the twilight zone of consumer products that don't exist.

Capt'n Midnight

You'd need a PC with a TV tuner card - or something similar - PVR or whatever.

Use a VGA extension cable to have the PC a few meters away.

Since the 19" monitor has a higher resolution than a TV you might be able to swap for a pure LCD TV with someone.

Oh yeah the real kicker is that it would only cost about €40 more have stuck a tuner in it when they made it.

beaker

Here's a CNET article.

Asok

what make model is the screen there may be a way to fit a tuner

Sparky

i seen a thing in the maplins catalogue that is some sort of tuner that has a vga output to a monitor and does'nt need the pc to be on, so this may be the thing your looking for. Its an external while box ni bigger than a dvd case by the looks of it.

Maxwell

Ooops sorry, its a spare 17" LCD and not 19" and its a Dell

Thanks for your input there, but I was hoping that something might be out there that didn't have too many wires hanging around and was just a converter of some kind. Seems like a waste of a really good unused monitor - thanks for the link to the article, but as it says, there is a good few wires hanging around and a large (ish) box that comes with it and since I want to hang this on a wall - it doesn't seem like the option for me.Do think that it shouldnt be too difficult to insert another board into the monitor, but thats another matter.

Feck it anyway, thanks for the feedback!!

Maxwell

Hey SparkyS, if come accross the catalogue again any chance you could let me know the model number so I could check it out?

Thanks

darraghrogan

this yoke might do the trick if you couple it with a vcr or summat:

http://www.svideo.com/video2vga.html

Darragh

halkar

Wouldn't one of those PS2 Xbox vga convertor boxes do the trick? I have one of those and it has RCA input for dvd players etc. I haven't tried that combination though

Edit,
Sorry I didn't see the link above, yep one of those but the price doesn't look good.

air

All you need is something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5209050475&rd=1
Just search on ebay for "external tv tuner" and you'll find loads of them.
My mate uses one in his flat in London with an old 19in crt he had lying around adn the picture is great on it. Remote & everything.

Scruff

heres an article i found on it yersterday: http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/external-pc-tv-theor/



there is someone on boards trying to do something like this as well:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=268315

they are having a few problems too but ye between the 2 of ye ye might both get yerselves sorted.

Maxwell

Thanks for the info, links and feedback!!

Appreciate your help!