Watching tv on your arcade monitor

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I need some help here guys. About 2 years ago I know I came across a device that allows you to turn your arcade rgb monitor into a tv. It was some kind of ntsc to rgb converter/receiver but I can not remeber where I saw it. Any ideals guys. The reason I am asking is because I was thinking about buying one of those large arcade projection like monitors to put in my living room to double as a arcade monitor and television.
 
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if you where in europe it would be as easy as pie, just take the rgb out of a vcr.

Otherwise a composite to rgb converter is required.
 
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Quazimoto said:
I just bought a converter from www.arcadeshop.com ....It will change an arcade boards signal to work on a regular TV via S-video....maybe they may have what you are looking for.
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Thanks for the reply but your thinking backwards. I want to change a composite video into a rgb signal so my rgb monitor can be used as a television.

ttooddddyy said:
if you where in europe it would be as easy as pie, just take the rgb out of a vcr.

Otherwise a composite to rgb converter is required.
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yeah I know

DanAdamKOF said:
This project uses a composite->RGB conversion: http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Pro...endo/index.html

perhaps email the person who built it for the schematic?
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This guy email is dead


I found out what chip can do it the sony CXA2019AQ, but i can not physically find the chip itself. Anyone out there can help me.
 
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http://www.lupinesystems.com/

They have a couple of different versions available, every once in awhile you see one on Ebay. I have something similar, I have the xbox to J-pac jamma converter, it works awesome, I play Halo 2 & other xbox games, Emulators, watch DVD's, anime, etc... Looks high rez. Let me know how the Lupine Systems adapters work for you if you do pick one up?!

Man,

If I knew that there were Neo Gamers in Torrence, I would have set something up while I was down there for a yr going to school. Oh well, good luck on your venture! Laters... :smirk:
 
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VCRs just output composite or S-Video (SVHS recorders only) through the Scart plug. Digital VCRs do output RGB however Digital VCRs are not available off the shelves and tend to be industry only.
 
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SeaWolf69 said:
http://www.lupinesystems.com/

They have a couple of different versions available, every once in awhile you see one on Ebay. I have something similar, I have the xbox to J-pac jamma converter, it works awesome, I play Halo 2 & other xbox games, Emulators, watch DVD's, anime, etc... Looks high rez. Let me know how the Lupine Systems adapters work for you if you do pick one up?!

Man,

If I knew that there were Neo Gamers in Torrence, I would have set something up while I was down there for a yr going to school. Oh well, good luck on your venture! Laters... :smirk:
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Thanks very much for showing me this site. $200 kind of steap. It has a build in receiver which would explain why it cost so much. When the FCC gets around to switching from analog to digital that receiver will not be worth five cents. I could use a stand alone receiver all I needed was the Chroma Decoder. But I might have to settle for this since I can not locate the part needed to build my own.

Yeap I am in Torrance, SNK U.S was only a 3 minute drive or fifteen minute walk form my place when it was located here. All the arcades in the area folded after they left though. What did you go to high school or El Camino out here?
 
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Hah,

I was down there just before they closed their doors. I missed it by 3 months? I used to buy AES games from them directly, so I pretty much knew their address. My son was born at the hospital down the street from them. I was pretty bummed when I found out :oh_no: . Shortly after that I discovered this site to make up for the loss. What part are you looking for exactly? Always glad to help out a fellow gamer. :smirk:

I went to the College of Oceaneering in Wilimington, I forget which apartment I stayed in? Just down the street from a 7-11, albertsons was across the blvd. I could walk to former SNK USA address in about 15 minutes or so as well? I would spend most of my time in the mall at the arcade or laundromats on big reds where I could find them. I did bring my AES with me, but no one was very interested in playing me? All I have for that system are fighters. Every once in awhile I would play against some asian on Samurai Showdown - not sure exactly which one; on a big red. I would smoke them and they would just look at me funny and leave? Was a rough time for me to find any decent competition. Hah, I'm home now and there are a bunch of us that get together every weekend and play until we can't stand each other.
 
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SeaWolf69 said:
Hah,

I was down there just before they closed their doors. I missed it by 3 months? I used to buy AES games from them directly, so I pretty much knew their address. My son was born at the hospital down the street from them. I was pretty bummed when I found out :oh_no: . Shortly after that I discovered this site to make up for the loss. What part are you looking for exactly? Always glad to help out a fellow gamer. :smirk:

I went to the College of Oceaneering in Wilimington, I forget which apartment I stayed in? Just down the street from a 7-11, albertsons was across the blvd. I could walk to former SNK USA address in about 15 minutes or so as well? I would spend most of my time in the mall at the arcade or laundromats on big reds where I could find them. I did bring my AES with me, but no one was very interested in playing me? All I have for that system are fighters. Every once in awhile I would play against some asian on Samurai Showdown - not sure exactly which one; on a big red. I would smoke them and they would just look at me funny and leave? Was a rough time for me to find any decent competition. Hah, I'm home now and there are a bunch of us that get together every weekend and play until we can't stand each other.
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Well the IC that will get the job done is called a sony CXA2019AQ encoder, not easy to come by and I do not think the guys on that site will sell me the encoder alone.

I think I know where you lived, between Hawthorne and Torrance blvd, there alot of car lots in that area. I used to be biomedical technician in the hospital your son was born in. There no arcades around here now. The arcade in the del amo mall closed down,and the old snk building is just sitting there rotting, its real sad to see a once proud symbol just rusting. I used to buy neo cd games from them directly, I didn't have the bank roll back then to upgrade to mvs like i do now. To bad we miss each other because there are no neo-geo members around here. But then again given the fact I work 48 hours a week I really don't have the free time like I once did. Where are you now the great white north?
 
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Pm replied to. Looking over the xbox converter in question I have dicovered it does not convert nstc standard into rgb. What in does is take the rgb signal directly off the xbox and filters it a little then runs it directly into the monitor. Almost every system has rgb outputs, the thing is you have to go out of your way to access that feature. But thanks none the less.
 
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Idea, perhaps try this:

Get a PC, put a TV tuner card in it, use an ArcadeVGA card to output it to your monitor. TV tuner cards can be had for like $30 after rebate, and if you have a spare PC laying around (who doesn't?), you'd spend another $90 on the arcadevga.

http://www.ultimarc.com/avgainf.html
 
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OK, what you need is one of those TV tuners for computer monitors that you can buy on ebay. What they do is output RGB signal at VGA (maybe it was XGA?) resolution. Take the RGB signal from the vga port on this box. Then, since the sync rates will be all wrong, use the composite video line from your dvd/satellite/ps2 etc as the composite sync line. If it does not sync this way you will need to make a filter to split the sync from the composite video.

example:
DVD (composite) -----------------Tuner-------------RGB Projector
|------------------------sync line------------------------------|

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-TV-to-Compu...8724763653QQcategoryZ3761QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It would be much easier to just buy a projector that can handle vga, composite, and standard RGB. I got one on ebay for under $100 that does all three (of course when the bulb dies that's it, bc a new bulb for a 10 year old projector is usually close to $400).

cheers,
-DT
 
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