Thread: Composite (RCA) to Vga Need Help

I'm not getting the full picture here. Can you give us a little more detail on what your project is going to be?

1) What's the source, and what kind of signal does it output? Is it a VGA computer with both VGA out and TV out? Is it a DVD player or Playstation?

2) What's the skinny on that screen you're trying to use? Is it an off-the-shelf LCD monitor for computers? Is it a LCD TV? Does it accept DVI and/or VGA and/or RCA or composite video?

degredation of the signal perhaps. Running VGA from the trunk of a car tends to really mess it up

which would be better? a 15-pin VGA cable or the RCA video out cable?

VGA is better for clarity, hands down. RCA is more easily split and will travel over longer distances.

i have a pioneer dvd player avh-p7300 dvd and it has a rca output to connect to other monitor and im planning to use a out-off the shelf computer monitor and its input to it is a vga input, i want to connect it with out the use of a cpu, just plain rca to vga connection, is there a diagram on how to make that connector? thanks

I don't know of any way to simply wire it together. But I would use a Viewsonic TV Tuner. It accepts composite RCA in, svideo, and coax for TV. The VGA from computer also passes through it. I have one and love it. Switch between Computer>XBOX>CCTV night-vision camera in the hall>~70 TV channels>back to Computer all with a nice remote. It also handles channeling all the audio correctly. I am especially impressed with the remote, as it is super strong sending and recieving the signal, I can bounce the signal off the ceiling and walls from across the room.
I got it for about $65 and it was well worth it as I can watch TV without the hum of the PC and can check the hallway in the middle of the night for intruding infidels
I was going to run this in my car but decided to just put a decent PCI TV Tuner in there and wait the 40 seconds boot time for RCA input.
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/video_box_vb50hrtv.htm

thanks