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Comment on Should it work? by sheepeatingtaz

sheepeatingtaz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:22:26 +0000

@Beaker: yeah, the Cosby Show rocks!

Comment on Should it work? by Beaker

Beaker — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:01:35 +0000

LOL, is that the Cosby Show you’re watching??

Comment on Lisa Update by MooDoo

MooDoo — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:13:55 +0000

Thoughts are with you both…..get well soon lisa.

Comment on Lisa Update by mrben

mrben — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:44:55 +0000

Jings - that sounds a bit nasty. Please do pass on my best wishes and prayers.

Comment on Breakfast by sheepeatingtaz

sheepeatingtaz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:41:31 +0000

Turns out, Worcestershire sauce in the Baked Bean toasties worked out well.

Comment on Breakfast by Jason Liquorish

Jason Liquorish — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:13:40 +0000

I absolutely hate that, even worse when you have 9/10 of the ingredients but that one thing you cannot do without is not there!

Still nothing wrong with bake bean toasties!

Comment on Should it work? by sheepeatingtaz

sheepeatingtaz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:34:29 +0000

Thanks for all the comments, and after experimenting & reading up, It won’t work!

Time to save up for a Neuros OSD, methinks

Comment on Should it work? by Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:16:13 +0000

I do appreciate you are looking for serious answers,but since when have I been serious!!
Have you tried the box of bits and bobs we have here?
How about one of those new super thin laptops!!?
Are you sure you still have all the bits - animals will hide things you know!!
May the force be with you.

Comment on Should it work? by Alex Willmer

Alex Willmer — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:46:04 +0000

I don’t think that will work, unless a) your acer vga port is special b) that eBay cable is very, very special.

- VGA outputs red, green & blue signals at a range of resolutions.
- Televisions accept a composite or s-video signal through the scart socket, at a specific resolution. Some TVs also accept an RGB signal.
- Judging by the coloured connectors, your eBay cable has composite (yellow), s-video (grey) and Left/Right (red/white) audio outputs.
- No standard VGA port can output those signals.
- Acer may have done something special, to dual purpose the VGA connector, in which case you’d need a program or switch to activate it.

Can you post a link to the eBay auction.?

Also look for any outputs on your laptop that would fit the composite or s-video output on your eBay cable.

Comment on Should it work? by mrben

mrben — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:31:44 +0000

One other thing to check - converting from VGA to a normal analogue signal is normally quite tricky - make sure that your VGA plug thing is actually able to do that.

Comment on Should it work? by mrben

mrben — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:25:35 +0000

Yes, it should work. It’s probably easiest to try and get output onto a monitor working first - you may even finding that the keyboard function for turning on the external displays works.

Once it’s working, whether on single screen (ie same screen on LCD and monitor) or dual screen (different screens), then set the external display to 1024×768, seems to work fine on my TV (although I’m using the SVHS output on my laptop, not VGA).

Having said that - I’m not entirely sure about the initial bit in your connection - how they expect to get sound output from a VGA port I have no idea.

Comment on Should it work? by Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:58:21 +0000

At a guess I’d say no, it won’t work.

The obvious thing is the second item looks like it has inputs for audio to your video connector.

But you’re in the UK where things might be a little backwards.

Comment on Should it work? by Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Assuming you are doing VGA -> RGB (it would be helpful to say what each cable actually was instead of just showing a picture), then take a look at the information on http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/vga2scart/

Comment on Multi-region capabilities by mrben

mrben — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:13:07 +0000

One thing you might be interested in, that I recently found out about, is the Hauppauge Media MVP. It’s a little settop box which boots over the network and plays your music, videos and pictures. Where it gets interesting is that there is a MythTV frontend for it (http://www.mvpmc.org/).

You can pick one up for about £30 off ebay. It’s completely silent as it has no moving parts. And it has a remote control by default. Oh, and because it boots off the network, you don’t need to flash in the new OS, you just move it to the relevant place on the network

Comment on Telly Update by tom_servo

tom_servo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:30 +0000

Dotn forget The Mitchell and Webb Look. Very funny stuff.