DVI To Composite Cables?

[DJTommyTheCat]

For those of you who use a television as your cab monitor, what cable solution do you use to run from the PC to the TV?  Is there a DVI to Composite cable I can find, or do people use a better option? I don't expect HDMI out/in for the cheap PC and TV I plan to use for my first cab, so I could use some advice.

Cheers!

[DJTommyTheCat]

I think I might be looking for a VGA to Composite cable actually.  I have DVI to HDMI for my PC to my nicer TV, but I'm not sure what the difference between VGA and DVI is.

[TOK]

DVI to Component would probably be your best option if you can get a TV with it.
I suppose S-Video would be the second choice, with Composite being a last ditch option. Not sure about DVI to Composite adapters, but I've seen plenty of cards with Composite out.

Lots of discussion on this in the video forum.  

[ivwshane]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10401&cs_id=1040113&p_id=2509&seq=1&format=1#largeimage

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10235&cs_id=1023503&p_id=2409&seq=1&format=1#largeimage

[MonMotha]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10401&cs_id=1040113&p_id=2509&seq=1&format=1#largeimage

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10235&cs_id=1023503&p_id=2409&seq=1&format=1#largeimage

FYI, be sure you read the description tab for those products.  Chances are they do not do what you want.  A simple cable cannot convert VGA or DVI to composite, component, or S-Video.  Those cables are meant for select, rare applications.

[DJ_Izumi]

Yes, those adaptors there are just pinout adaptors.  They'd only be used to convert the pinouts, they are not capable of any signal conversion.  They'd be meant for hardware that could do the conversion first.  With the composite adaptor, teh graphics card would be rendering composite video out the VGA port and the adaptor would just give you the right pinout.  Personally, I've never seen a graphics card that does that, they just get dedicated s-video ports instead.

The component cable is the same.  More suited for converting RGsB over RCA to RGsB over DE15.  Would be great for getting PS2 480p games on RGsB capable monitors.

[RayB]

How about a video card with S-VHS out? That's at least better than composite and there was a time not too long ago when many video cards had S-VHS out.

[DJTommyTheCat]

Cheers for the responces.  I'll make sure to find a TV with at least S-Video, as I'm certain I've seen display adapters with S-Vid Out.  Or Composite Outs, that too. ^.^

[RayB]

Keep reminding yourself of this: Composite = ---smurfy--- quality image. THe only thing worse than composite is one of those old-fashioned RF of co-axial connections.