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is there any way to use a moniter as a tv without a computer? what i would like to do is wire a coaxual video cable or S-video cable onto a moniter plug or somthing like that. is it posable?

any help would be much appriciated.

I'm no computer expert, so I'm not liable for whatever happens to you or anything else whatsoever, including if this message blinds your eyes.

I've read on some of the monitor boxes that they can be used at a TV monitor and the Nvida display card setup thingy had this TV function.

Never too sure of anything, Nagamasa.

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Originally posted by YA_MUM
is there any way to use a moniter as a tv without a computer? what i would like to do is wire a coaxual video cable or S-video cable onto a moniter plug or somthing like that. is it posable?

any help would be much appriciated.

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... please don't ruin a perfectly fine monitor doing that.

You would need a tuner and/or an RGB converter or a HD tuner with an RGB output, either way I don't see this as effective.

Some monitors have a build-in TV tuner, that you can use as a TV.

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Originally posted by Vilkku
Some monitors have a build-in TV tuner, that you can use as a TV.

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Don't you think he'd notice if his monitor had a coaxial antenna input?

i meant like the yellow RCA input lol. and i have heaps lying around.. and i wouldnt ruin it lol i would get a male plug and wire that up so i just plug the cable into it. so theres no way to do that without a computer? damn.

You can get external TV tuners, but they are likely expensive. I remember as a kid, our TV was an old Acorn monitor with an amstrad TV tuner underneath it

The TV licence man came to our house, and he just let us off this once he said we'd better get a licence though

VHS VCRs usually have tuners built-in, you could get one of those.

but i just want to run somthing like a ps2 straight into a spare moniter with no computers needed.. isnt that possable?