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xbox and tv on a crt?

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colonelsanders

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im moving into a dorm room and wont have room for my comp and tv sooo i was wondering about hooking my xbox up to my 17in monitor
and i also want to be able to watch tv

is it possible to hook it up through an allinwonder card or a tv tuner
does that distort the picture/cause problems?
in theory i should be able to get an rf adapter and just plug that sucker into the rca but i just need some reassurance before i go plunking down the $$$


or should i get the xbox to vga adapter and skip out on my cnn headline news

has anyone already done this cause i searched and didnt find much
all i need are some answers or suggestions of sort

any help would be appreciated
thanks
 
Well, I've run my Xbox through my Winfast 2000 Expert, and it left a lot to be desired. I even was putting it in S-Video and it was blurry and games with fast motion like say Project Gotham Racing 2 blur really badly with the motion. I have a component adapter that lets you play games on a VGA monitor. It is a lot better than thru a tuner card. I actually don't even use it though, so I need to get rid of the damn thing. But even RF thru a tv makes xbox games look better than thru a tv card on a pc. Unless you pay like $170 to get a viewsonic nextvision 6 video processor, then don't bother. Get a VGA adapter if you want any sort of quality.
 
Through a TV tuner card works alright if you turn off any CPU based filtering in the TV viewing software on the PC, and run the PC monitor at a resolution where image scaling does not occur (for NTSC standard, that'd be 640x480!). I'm doing this all the time - with a GameCube, a DVD player, older games consoles, and of course for cable TV.

Note that analog signal processing cards like those are extremely susceptible to poor power supply and power filtering. So if your mainboard and/or your power supply aren't up to the job, image quality will suffer quite noticeably.
 
Hmm... I tested this recently with an AiW 8500 and an LCD screen and it looked pretty decent to me. Better than the TV at least... I've been trying to decide if I should check out S-Video cables for even better looks. Perhaps the AiW is just better sutied to this application.

My biggest concern was trying to run both my TV and my exercise station (treadmill with an LCD monitor mounted over it) with the same PC. If anyone can think of a better way to do this, please let me know 🙂
 
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