Hello. I don't post here often at all but I have been looking at these forums regularly for the past few years. I need some basic information pertaining to connecting a WII gaming console to my PC LCD monitor (or a CRT) and need a few definitions cleared up. If this has been asked before, please redirect me to the correct place and that will be the end of it and I will have been sorry I asked.
First of all, what exactly is the difference between adapting a connection type to another connection type and converting a signal to another signal. I mean one you have a simple connector the other one you have a box. If you need a reference, I am referring to converting / adapting a component video input to a vga output. (Hope I said that correctly) Does one only adapt the type of connection and the other convert say a signal to a resolution that another connector (vga perhaps) can understand?
Second as referred to, I want to hook my Nintendo WII to my LCD monitor. Now I realize the expensive way of doing this; buying a trans coder box that converts component video into a vga signal. However I don't plan on spending a ton of money. Some have gotten cheap, such as 60 dollar ones, but that is besides the point. My monitor only has DVI D and VGA inputs, no component / composite / svideo inputs. Now my obvious answer to solve this problem would be to buy a component to DVI I adapter and then buy a DVI I to VGA adapter. I notice this sounds way too easy to be true. Is there some basic rule I have forgotten? I mean I have tried to research the subject of connecting two adapters together quite extensively and have found nothing on the matter. There has to be some unspoken rule to adapting connections that I don't know of or people would have tried to do this simple fix earlier. Would this theoretically work?
Much appreciated
LostTime77
First of all, what exactly is the difference between adapting a connection type to another connection type and converting a signal to another signal. I mean one you have a simple connector the other one you have a box. If you need a reference, I am referring to converting / adapting a component video input to a vga output. (Hope I said that correctly) Does one only adapt the type of connection and the other convert say a signal to a resolution that another connector (vga perhaps) can understand?
Second as referred to, I want to hook my Nintendo WII to my LCD monitor. Now I realize the expensive way of doing this; buying a trans coder box that converts component video into a vga signal. However I don't plan on spending a ton of money. Some have gotten cheap, such as 60 dollar ones, but that is besides the point. My monitor only has DVI D and VGA inputs, no component / composite / svideo inputs. Now my obvious answer to solve this problem would be to buy a component to DVI I adapter and then buy a DVI I to VGA adapter. I notice this sounds way too easy to be true. Is there some basic rule I have forgotten? I mean I have tried to research the subject of connecting two adapters together quite extensively and have found nothing on the matter. There has to be some unspoken rule to adapting connections that I don't know of or people would have tried to do this simple fix earlier. Would this theoretically work?
Much appreciated
LostTime77