Originally posted by: Sniper82
Does hooking a PS2/Xbox to a LCD actually look better? I have a 19" widescreen and am wondering if it's worth the purchase. Also are all vga adapters about the same?
I agree, I actually have a Sceptre x-9 19" that has s-video and composite as well as VGA style and DVI connectors and I hooked up a game cube through S-Video and compared to when I hooked it up to my TV through the component video connectors I had, it really didn't look that great. Text was slightly clearer, but that's about it. Only slight differences, nothing to write home about so to speak. And that was with a straight in connection and no conversion. You have to consider that the main benefit of hooking up a console to a LCD monitor would potentially be the fact that a computer display is non-interlaced and a TV display is interlaced unless it is HDTV progressive scan. So, your game system will still treat your LCD monitor like an interlaced display because it is programmed to do so, and you won't get any benefit. As a previous poster said, though, if you were to hook up a console that uses HDTV 720p or 1080p, then you might see some improvement. Although in that case you'd have to have something to convert a component output into something your monitor would support. I don't know of any computer monitors that have component video in. There are solutions to that, though, like if you had a HTPC with component in (through a video capture/tv card), then a video card with DVI out to a monitor, then I can see that working, although, I have not tested this as of yet. Me and a cousin of mine have been considering building an HTPC that might have this capability.
I haven't tried an XBOX with this yet, but I have one about a hundred feet away in our pad's basement here. Right now it's hooked up to an ancient 60" rear projection TV, but, I could try it and let you know how it looks on my LCD... if you're interested (that is, if I can tear my roommates away from the XBOX)
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