Please stop shouting!
Bill--W4BSG
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From: <craftee97@aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] VGA-to-video converter gives rolling picture
on TV
>I BUY ALL OF MY TVS FROM CRAIGSLIST AND THEY WORK GREAT FRUGAL IS THE BEST
>WAY TO GO.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "BeautyIsAGeek" <toyotaokiec@yahoo.com>
> Sender: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:06:29
> To: <simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com>
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> Subject: [Simply Computers] VGA-to-video converter gives rolling picture
> on TV
>
> I connected my desktop computer (XP Professional) at home to my TV using a
> VGA-to-video converter and RF modulator.
>
> The TV is old, but it works great! And it fits in my entertainment center.
> That's one of the main reasons I haven't sprung for a new flat screen TV.
> It's a Philips Magnavox CRT 25" with stereo speakers built in. It cost
> $12.50 a couple of months ago at a second hand store. It only has
> connectors for coax and antenna, so that's why I used the RF modulator. I
> already had it because my old GE 19" TV was the one I bought in 1985, and
> it only had coax and antenna connectors, too. It still works, so it's been
> moved to a bedroom. (I know that seems OT, but it illustrates how FRUGAL I
> like to be!)
>
> I was able to get the picture to show on the TV, but it had no color and
> would not stop rolling. I tried every refresh rate setting I could find on
> the computer, but nothing changed on the TV. It almost seemed like, since
> the computer was unable to receive any handshaking from the old TV, it
> refused to change anything in the signal that went to the TV. Or, was the
> RF modulator overriding the changes I was making on the computer?
>
> The sound worked fine. I got it to the TV using an audio splitter cable
> that plugged into the VGA-to-video converter, then into the RF modulator.
> The sound connection only worked when the video was plugged in, too. There
> was also a USB cable that ran from the computer to the VGA-to-video
> converter. I did try hooking up external stereo speakers using just an
> audio cable, but they weren't powered, so no sound came out.
>
> We ended up putting the computer next to the TV, covering the TV's display
> because the rolling was annoying, using a new 23" flat screen monitor on
> the computer, and the speakers built into the TV. I ran out of time to rig
> up anything else. (We were getting this ready for some friends of my kid
> to come over and watch some videos. My kid's idea was to have them gather
> around the laptop in the bedroom, but I said I didn't think that was a
> very good way to treat guests and suggested trying to use the big TV in
> the living room.)
>
> I'm sure there are lots of different ways to accomplish my goal of playing
> the computer-based videos on the TV. (My kid didn't want to burn a DVD.)
> Is there anything else I can do to get the video on the TV to stop rolling
> and show color? It seemed like I was really close to getting it to work!
>
> If we do this again and I can't come up with a way to make it play
> completely on the TV, I think I'll get a 3.5mm-to-3.5mm cable and run the
> audio to my boom box audio in. That should give good enough sound from the
> computer to not be annoying.
>
> Still, I'd rather get it to play on the TV.
>
> Ideas?
>
> If you can't tell, I'm trying to avoid spending money I can't justify. In
> other words, I can't justify a new big HD TV and all the extra stuff
> (furniture!) go to with it. I didn't plan to buy the new computer flat
> screen monitor, but the old monitor was starting to flake out anyway, so I
> went ahead and got one.
>
>
>
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