Posted by Mike S. on 12/02/06 02:42

In article <2006120116325716807-malcolm@invalid>,
Malcolm <malcolm@invalid> wrote:
>On 2006-12-01 06:29:26 -0500, "Richard" <nogood@email.com> said:
>
>> Hi. A friend wants to be able to use a PC monitor with a DVD player.
>>
>> Can he buy an adaptor cable to do this?
>>
>> I'm thinking, can he get a cable that plugs into the scart socket on
>> his DVD, and the plugs into the PC "ideo in"socket?
>>
>> I suppose he may have other "video out" options on his DVD player.
>> Perhaps I ought to suss them out.
>>
>> I don't think he needs a transcoder.
>
>You need a video processor. Viewsonic makes several. The model you
>need depends on what video outputs the DVD player has.
><http://www.viewsonic.com/support/tventertainment/tvvideoprocessors/>

I used to see thes eon the shelves at Best Buy, but not recently. It
looked like an interesting box, but I started reading the reviews and it
seems the PQ was just "ok"; nothing spectacular.

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