[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:22 AM, David Kirk <davidrkirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
>>> btw DVI to component adapters can be bought cheaply on trademe.
>>
>> Read my warning a few messages back. First one I found on trademe
>> confirms my warning
>>
>> "Connectors: DVI-I Male to (3) RCA Male( Red, Green, Blue.)
>> ...
>> (*)The Cable Not Support your Computer Monitor Video Port, or Y , Cr,
>> Cb Video. Your Video Source Must Provide a YpbPr Component Video
>> Signal form the DVI-I Video Ports to Use Cable "
>
> I found a VGA to Component cable at work and took it home to give it a
> go.  It didn't go well.  I plugged it in to a laptop and tried all
> sorts of settings, but it was a complete mess.  I couldn't get it to
> work.
>
> I've seen some VGA to S-Video and Composite cables.  I wonder if one
> of those will work.

some do, some are poor quality. Remember too composite and s-video are
the two poorest quality of reproduction, but you may be happy with
them. The hierarchy is pretty well:

composite
s-video
component/vga (not too sure what order to put them in)
hdmi/dvi (equivalent)


>
>
> Thanks
>
> David Kirk
>
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