VGA Box for the X-Box - but it will cost you.

[superbooga]

The reason this costs a lot is that it's not really a "vga box"...it converts progressive component video to RGB. These things are generally used to connect dvd players and such to projectors and such that have an HD15 connector but lack a YPrPb one. Most multimedia projectors don't have YPrPb connectors, but they do have an HD15 (home entertainment FP's usually have both..and cost an arm and leg).

Oh yeah, you can go the other way to...it's the best way to connect your PC to the TV to watch DVD's and such, unless your screen has a VGA input. This way (VGA->YPrPb) costs more than the other way though ($50 more or so).

The $40 one is by Redant. They made one for the PS2 that was essentially a line doubler also. Chances are this one just uses an S-video signal for input and converts to a non-interlaced VGA signal. Component processing isn't something you find in a 40 dollar product.

 

[codehack2]

Day Late and a $ short..

(Posted Nov. 28) - XBOX on a PC Monitor.. finally, true VGA & no cheesy upscalers!

Take a quick peak at my thread.. personally, you couldn't pay me enough to revisit this topic here. I had 1 person that was actually interested, and 50 others telling that I was wasting my money..

Good Luck,
CH2

 

[LiQiCE]

codehack2,

Wow, I wish I had known other people were trying this too. (Too bad I missed your thread on it)... Then I would have been able to find more information on it before I purchased the box and wouldnt have spent an entire night trying to figure out why the dashboard wouldn't show up ... Anyways, cool to see that I'm not the only one who is nuts enough to spend $150 on a VGA box setup for the X-Box

 

[codehack2]

<< cool to see that I'm not the only one who is nuts enough to spend $150 >>



Hey.. don't say that to loud.. these sharks around here will eat you up when they smell blood.. hehe.

Anyway, Great job on putting that guide together.. should help alot of people out.

I'm considering ripping apart my AA box to look at the internal layout.. I've got a couple of weeks off for the holidays, so I'm kicking around the idea of attempting to fabricate an all in one transcoder box.. onboard transcoding rather than to an external box. I've got some minor pcb layout/design experience, I'm pretty sure I can get ahold of transcoding chip, and now that it looks like the pinout for the video out of the XBXOX has been figured out, putting a device like this toghether might be feasible. I'll PM you, when/if I get around to this if your interested.

BTW, do you run xboxhacker.net?

 

[Doomguy]

Lik-Sang blows they jipped me twice. First I got a portable NES from them ,the sound stopped working. I sent it to them to get a replacement and they sent me the same one back, in the same box, with the same tape. Of course it didn't work. I told them this and they called me stupid.

I later ordered a dreamcast coders cable from them because they were the only ones that had it at the time. It came DOA. I wasen't going to spend more than the cable cost to ship it back.

 

[VH5150]

" just picked up a VGA adapter for my dreamcast. It rocks.

15 bucks for the DC one is a far cry from 150 though. "


lol

 

[LiQiCE]

codehack2,

Nope, I dont run xboxhacker.net, I just emailed a few different admins on X-Box fanpages and the admin from xboxhacker.com was the first one to respond, so I sent him my guide.

I'd definitely be interested in finding out more information on making a cheaper VGA box for X-Box. I probably wouldnt be able to make one myself, but if you have the schematics, I know a few friends who are big VGA box fans too ... (and prolly would try to make one, or buy one).