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ps3 to pc monitor vga converter box
- Oct 6, 2012 9:16 am GMT
hello i was just wondering if i can use this vga converter box to connect my ps3 to my 1280 x 1024 60hz toshiba monitor
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- Oct 6, 2012 9:29 am GMT
It will probably work, but PS3 at 480i is gonna look terrible
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- Oct 6, 2012 9:41 am GMT
[QUOTE="kraken2109"]
It will probably work, but PS3 at 480i is gonna look terrible
[/QUOTE] will there be any lag in running a game and also im using this for the meanwhile until i buy a better monitor so it doesnt really matter about qaulity so by using this will the game be playable
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- Oct 6, 2012 11:28 am GMT[QUOTE="gangstafc"]
[QUOTE="kraken2109"]
It will probably work, but PS3 at 480i is gonna look terrible
[/QUOTE] will there be any lag in running a game and also im using this for the meanwhile until i buy a better monitor so it doesnt really matter about qaulity so by using this will the game be playable
[/QUOTE] It will introduce some input lag but i can't say for sure whether it'll be noticeable or not. Considering you can get a 1080p 22" monitor for £100 I wouldn't bother.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Oct 6, 2012 12:00 pm GMT[QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="gangstafc"]
[QUOTE="kraken2109"]
It will probably work, but PS3 at 480i is gonna look terrible
[/QUOTE] will there be any lag in running a game and also im using this for the meanwhile until i buy a better monitor so it doesnt really matter about qaulity so by using this will the game be playable
[/QUOTE] It will introduce some input lag but i can't say for sure whether it'll be noticeable or not. Considering you can get a 1080p 22" monitor for £100 I wouldn't bother.[/QUOTE] where from- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Oct 6, 2012 12:43 pm GMT[QUOTE="gangstafc"][QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="gangstafc"] will there be any lag in running a game and also im using this for the meanwhile until i buy a better monitor so it doesnt really matter about qaulity so by using this will the game be playable[/QUOTE] It will introduce some input lag but i can't say for sure whether it'll be noticeable or not. Considering you can get a 1080p 22" monitor for £100 I wouldn't bother.[/QUOTE] where from[/QUOTE] Everywhere, look you can get an IPS panel for that money http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-IPS224V-inch-Backlit-Monitor/dp/B008F7GVZS/ref=pd_sim_computers_1
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- Oct 20, 2012 11:37 am GMT
Yes you can but dear god don't use that one.
If you want to run a PS3 on a VGA monitor, use a component to VGA adapter instead so you can at least get 480p out of it. With your monitor's resolution you can also get 720p out of it, but you may want to run in 480p instead because that's a 4:3 aspect ratio signal whereas 720p is 16:9. I'm guessing if your monitor is 1280x1024 that it's a 4:3 monitor.
I actually do this with an old vdigi box. I have a 27" CRT in an arcade machine that I wired a PS3 into. I use the vdigi to convert a 480p signal from the PS3 to a 640x480 VGA signal. Sure the resolution is a little lower than nice high def, but on a CRT it actually looks pretty good. There's no noticable input lag.
But, as already mentioned, monitors are cheap these days.
-Byshop
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Yes you can but dear god don't use that one. :lol:
If you want to run a PS3 on a VGA monitor, use a component to VGA adapter instead so you can at least get 480p out of it. With your monitor's resolution you can also get 720p out of it, but you may want to run in 480p instead because that's a 4:3 aspect ratio signal whereas 720p is 16:9. I'm guessing if your monitor is 1280x1024 that it's a 4:3 monitor.
I actually do this with an old vdigi box. I have a 27" CRT in an arcade machine that I wired a PS3 into. I use the vdigi to convert a 480p signal from the PS3 to a 640x480 VGA signal. Sure the resolution is a little lower than nice high def, but on a CRT it actually looks pretty good. There's no noticable input lag.
But, as already mentioned, monitors are cheap these days.
-Byshop
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- Oct 21, 2012 10:15 am GMTByshop wrote:
Yes you can but dear god don't use that one.
If you want to run a PS3 on a VGA monitor, use a component to VGA adapter instead so you can at least get 480p out of it. With your monitor's resolution you can also get 720p out of it, but you may want to run in 480p instead because that's a 4:3 aspect ratio signal whereas 720p is 16:9. I'm guessing if your monitor is 1280x1024 that it's a 4:3 monitor.
I actually do this with an old vdigi box. I have a 27" CRT in an arcade machine that I wired a PS3 into. I use the vdigi to convert a 480p signal from the PS3 to a 640x480 VGA signal. Sure the resolution is a little lower than nice high def, but on a CRT it actually looks pretty good. There's no noticable input lag.
But, as already mentioned, monitors are cheap these days.
-Byshop
1280x1024 is 5:4[QUOTE="Byshop"]Yes you can but dear god don't use that one. :lol:
If you want to run a PS3 on a VGA monitor, use a component to VGA adapter instead so you can at least get 480p out of it. With your monitor's resolution you can also get 720p out of it, but you may want to run in 480p instead because that's a 4:3 aspect ratio signal whereas 720p is 16:9. I'm guessing if your monitor is 1280x1024 that it's a 4:3 monitor.
I actually do this with an old vdigi box. I have a 27" CRT in an arcade machine that I wired a PS3 into. I use the vdigi to convert a 480p signal from the PS3 to a 640x480 VGA signal. Sure the resolution is a little lower than nice high def, but on a CRT it actually looks pretty good. There's no noticable input lag.
But, as already mentioned, monitors are cheap these days.
-Byshop
[/QUOTE] 1280x1024 is 5:4- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Oct 21, 2012 10:40 am GMT
Desktop - i3770K@ 4.5 (100 x 45) - Gigabyte Sniper.3 quad Xfire UEFI Mobo - 16 GB DDR3 RAM - AMD MSI 6990 and Nvidia 9800GTX for PhysX - Three Dell u2711 27" IPS monitors running plus one u2412m 24" IPS monitors and one Mitsubishi HC5500 1080P Native Projector on an 80" screen/Sharp 37" LCD TV in another room as the 5th monitor.
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Alienware M17X R2 17" Laptop - Core i7 920XM ES - 2.0/3.6ghz - 8 GB RAM - 500 GB Hybrid SSD - 5870 Xfire - 1920x1200 RGBLED
[QUOTE="kraken2109"]1280x1024 is 5:4[/QUOTE]
Pixel AR of 1280x1024 is 5:4, but that's not necessarily the AR of his display because the two aren't always the same. I don't know what kind of monitor the op has but whether it's 4:3 or 5:4 is a pretty minor distinction. The point was it's almost definitely not 16:9, which is the AR that the PS3 will want to run at 720p and up.
-Byshop
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- Oct 22, 2012 9:26 pm GMT---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Where There's Light, There's Shadow"I had a converter like that a few years ago and it was garbage. There were weird blue stripes running down the screen and lots of lag. Wasn't worth it to spend money to ship it back so I just threw it in the garbage. With that money, you would be better off putting it towards a used PC flat panel montior or something similar.
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