Thread: VGA to NTSC?

Hey, someone else from Austin. I knew I wasn't alone here.

Originally posted by fcc
what exactly is it you want/already have? The way I see it, you have a standard vga card and you want to have an rca out? If so, might have solution.

Looks like he just made his own vga -> composite adapter. Nothing wrong with that. If you got the know-how why go out and buy when you can build? Unless, of coarse the latter choice is cheaper.

BUT...Might I just add that I'm so against converting signals. If you are going to use a computer in a car, you really should use computer parts. Just like you don’t watch TV on a calculator display, you don’t want to watch VGA graphics on a standard TV monitor.

I remember back in HS my english teacher used this device that plugged into the room's PC and output to TV (via RCA cables) You need something like that. A VGA to RGB cable will not work. I still talk to that teacher. I'll email him and ask who made it. I'm sure it wasn't that much, he's cheap and so is the school...it looked like hell though. I say go VGA, spending this money on a all these coverters is BS. But if in the end you save money and don't mind the quality, or lack of more power to ya.

That VGA to RCA cable you tried was most likey made for a laptop that's video card has tv-out built in. The conversion takes place internally rather than on the cable end.

Originally posted by ppgt94
I remember back in HS my english teacher used this device that plugged into the room's PC and output to TV (via RCA cables) You need something like that. A VGA to RGB cable will not work. I still talk to that teacher. I'll email him and ask who made it. I'm sure it wasn't that much, he's cheap and so is the school...it looked like hell though. I say go VGA, spending this money on a all these coverters is BS. But if in the end you save money and don't mind the quality, or lack of more power to ya.

That VGA to RCA cable you tried was most likey made for a laptop that's video card has tv-out built in. The conversion takes place internally rather than on the cable end.

HERE: I found out what he used...It was somthing simliar to this -

http://www.aitech.com/psc-2000new.htm

Originally posted by ngthing


I know of those devices, the problem is they require a power supply too, so I'd have to attach that to my power inverter too
any other ideas?

So what?

5 volts DC at 700 milliamps. You can connect that to your computers PSU.


Here's a link to a few other of those vga - tv out devices:

http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/c...ommercial.html