from RCA to VGA

Over the weekend I picked up not one but two Beta VCR players. I successfully sold one like that in the past so that's my plan for these two as well.

I need to test them and the simplest thing to do is to connect them to the TV in the living room. But I prefer not to haul them back and forth from the basement ("my scrapper's cave") to the living room. So what I want to do is to connect it to an LCD monitor with a VGA input. I did some searching and found some adapters that go from VGA to RCA which are designed to feed output from a laptop to a TV. I am trying to basically do the opposite. Am I correct to assume that I can use this type of adapter to send the signal in the other direction? Or is it more complicated?

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

why not put a cheap old CRT in the basement.......19 inch or smaller are great for testing old equipment

You mean a CRT monitor? How would that be better than an LCD with a VGA input? It's same input signal type, but the CRT monitor, or an old tube TV, would take up a lot more space. My basement is small, so I am really trying to preserve space. Plus with an LCD I can use it to test desktop computers, laptops with buster screens, and even vintage machines. Definitely better than having different monitors for different purposes.