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Title: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: david656 on April 10, 2007, 04:01:10 am: ok i have a PS2 :-)

i have a nice PS2 to component cable (red, green, blue)

could i just wack on a RGB to VGA????????? would that work????
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: MonMotha on April 10, 2007, 04:41:40 am: While the component output of the PS2 can be set to RGB, almost all PS2 games run SD (480i), while PC monitors can only go as low as 480p (VGA). Very, very few PC monitors (all of them older ones) support the lower horizontal scanning rate (15kHz) required for 480i. You would need an upconverter to deinterlace the 480i to VGA in order to display it on a PC monitor.

If the game you're concerned with just happens to support the progressive scan feature of the PS2, it is a slight bit more possible, but getting usable sync out of the PS2 when running progressive scan and the component output is in RGB mode is extremely difficult. There are also products designed to "trick" games which normally do not support progressive scan into running in that mode anyway (at the possible expense of some video exactness), but the concern with utilizing the component output in RGB wrt getting a sync signal still applies.

I guess to succinctly answer the question: no, not really.
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: david656 on April 10, 2007, 07:37:21 am: right........ the what now!!!!!!!!

so basicly if i get a converter thinngyy im sorted???

enyway yehhh my arcade machine is computer based but not even built yet! it will be a 19" screen so whats better a PC screen which i have btw or a computer monitor?
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: BobA on April 10, 2007, 10:48:30 am: Quote from: david656 on April 10, 2007, 07:37:21 am
so whats better a PC screen which i have btw or a computer monitor?

A PC screen and a computer monitor are the same thing.

You can get an video output cable for your PS/2 that provides S Video and RCA A/V. If you get a cheap TV card with A/V or S Vid Input then you can display your PS/2 on your PC. I used to do it with a PS/1 and it worked fine. The TV cards are about $35.
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: SavannahLion on April 10, 2007, 12:25:19 pm: The PS2 had a Linux kit (http://playstation2-linux.com/) some time ago. I'm still pissed off that Sony discontinued the kit before I could get enough scratch to buy it. It pisses me off even more that people at places like Fry's and CompUSA thought I was trying to install a chip in my PS2. I live in a city filled with morons. :angry:

Anyhow, point is, there are VGA cables for the PS2. You just have to find them. You still have to contend with game and monitor compatibility.
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: david656 on April 10, 2007, 05:36:22 pm: well look i got a RGB cable but

yeh heard bout that linux thingy

oh i cn't be bothered
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: polaris on April 11, 2007, 04:21:08 pm: you need a scan converter
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: blueznl on April 12, 2007, 04:22:22 pm: ArcadeVGA in the PC perhaps?
Title: Re: connecting PS2 to CRT PC monitor?????
Post by: david656 on April 13, 2007, 03:31:01 am: dcan converter this sound familiar i've seen them on eBay etc but i thought well as i got my PS2 on RGB output it should be a nice sharp picture but obviously theres more to it i thoght RGB to VGA was simple