cheapest solution for hooking up xbox hdpack to monitor?

[Elixer]

Seems the xbox I received comes with a blackbox that has component outputs.
Anyone here have a good cheap solution that they have used to convert component to either composite (meh) or perhaps vga or dvi ?

Note, this is the original xbox, not the 360.

 

[Drako]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10235&cs_id=1023503&p_id=2409&seq=1&format=2

edit: Not sure if that will work, unless your monitor supports "component over VGA".

 

[Elixer]

Hmm, yeah, that don't seem to be the correct one.

This cable will not convert Y, Pr, Pb to RGBHV

Cheapest thing I found so far is over $65, and it don't seem to work very well.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815158131

 

[Drako]

I thought the old Xbox had a composite output on the back? Doesn't it?

 

[Elixer]

I thought the old Xbox had a composite output on the back? Doesn't it?

Nope, only a ethernet jack, and the custom cable jack for the output.

 

[kylebisme]

It has composite output on the back, you just need the right cable to plug into the jack, like this one. As for converting component to DVI or VGA, there's no cheep way to do that.

 

[Elixer]

It has composite output on the back, you just need the right cable to plug into the jack, like this one. As for converting component to DVI or VGA, there's no cheep way to do that.

A 360 cable works on the original xbox ?

Temp solution was to get a old TV that has component inputs, but the picture quality is pretty bad. Dunno if it is this really cheap TV, or what.

 

[kylebisme]

A 360 cable works on the original xbox ?

No, my bad. here's one for the original xbox.

As for the image quality on your current setup, if the TV supports 480p, enabling that will help.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Yeah, I actually got one of those converter boxes for my original Xbox to hook it up to my monitor some years ago. It worked fairly well but it wasn't perfect; contrast wasn't as good as it should have been.

Honestly it may be a better idea to either get a used 360 and get a VGA cable for it, or get a monitor or TV with component inputs.