The 'PC in' On HDTV's

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:45 am

On our HDTV, I notice that we have a 'PC in' area, as in a place where it seems I can plug in a computer VGA plug for video, and that green cord for audio. However, I was planning to hook up a VGA cable from a game console *cough360cough*. So, I guess I can hook up the VGA cable right there, but how about audio? Is there some sort of 'green cord' to left and right inputs adapter? Please help, thanks.

forrest · Post by **forrest** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:03 am

You'll need a 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Plug cable for audio. Radio Shack used to sell these for about $4 but now I think they just sell the Monster Cable version for $20. You can buy a 6 foot version on www.monoprice.com for $2

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:23 am

forrest wrote:You'll need a 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Plug cable for audio. Radio Shack used to sell these for about $4 but now I think they just sell the Monster Cable version for $20. You can buy a 6 foot version on www.monoprice.com for $2

And since you likely have a ton of electronics stuff sitting around, you could make your own, its not that hard, just figure out the left and right channels for the headphone plug.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:28 am

IIRC, the tip of the plug is the left channel, and the ring is right. The rest is ground, so tie the left and right grounds together.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:53 am

Actually, I'd like to buy this retail, I kind of er...want the 'best' for this HDTV hook up and now don't want anything with my marks on it, if you know what I mean, anyone have a direct link?

Actually never mind, I have some good wire (the 'good' kind) and lots of jacks, thanks peoples!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:17 pm

Well I was with my dad at Sam's Club and we were looking at some of the HDTVs. This one caught my attention, namely becaue it's size, price and it's supports up to 1080i HD resolution. That I've said and I'm looking to do, once I feel I can truly justify to myself the spending of money (yeah I'm stingy). That with any of my computers would be a wonder to behold.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:23 pm

Check to see what resolutions your TV can handle. On both of my HDTV's, they can only handle 1024x768 on VGA...

Post by **Triton** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:05 pm

ihave a 32" rca with dvi in but i lost my dvi cable

gonna buy another one sometime

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:13 pm

If I had a vga to RGB (RCA connectors) I would try hooking our computer up to our hdtv. I doubt our computer could display at the max resolusion of the tv, though. I tried using composite out and 2 twenty foot RCA cables spliced together and holy cow it looked like crap, not worthy of the tv!!

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:08 pm

My LCD is larger than full HD resolution (1920x1200 vs. 1920x1080), so I don't want to get an HDTV.

Besides, all of the ones I see look like crap anyway. Unnaturalâ€¦

Plus, if they only take 1024x768 from computers, there's something really weird with them.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:16 pm

Dude, where did you get your LCD & for how much!?

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:30 am

My HDTV is a CRT one, and I got it for 300 at Sears (it was an import from Canada, so I guess the exchange rates made it cheeper.. They don't sell it anymore though)

It supports only two resolutions natively to the CRT (being it's still a fixed frequency tube): 540p and 1080i

The resolutions list below is what it can do, and what it gets scaled too..

240p - 540p
288p - 540p
480i - 540p
480p - 540p
540p - (do i even need to mention this one?)
576i - 540p
576p - 540p
720p - 540p
1080i - 1080i (<< or that one either?)
1080p - 1080i

that chart may be true for other CRT HDTVs, as most CRTs are fixed frequency

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:01 am

I bought my TV roughly last summer, July 04. I think the resolution is approximately 1024*1080. The max High Definition it can go via the VGA port is 1080i, sadly no 1080p. Sony says Playstation can emit that signal, but it's not even official yet!

Indigno · Post by **Indigno** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:52 pm

I think that if you hook up your HDTV video up, you should still be able to use the RCA in (Usually there are some RCA red/ whites off to the side for just sound, or there will be some RCA sound that is associated with the HDTV plug)