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?

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

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Originally Posted by mikeinreco

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

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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.

AN old CRT TV.........They have multiple inputs sometimes in the front and back.......Coax/AV JAcks etc.......Shouldn't be hard to find one in the Free section of CL

http://salestores.com/stores/images/.../DTQ19Z4SC.jpg


PLEASE NOTE THE AV/JACKS In the front and these shouldn't weigh more than 15LBS

TV AV s Video RCA Composite to VGA PC Monitor Converter Adapter Box | eBay

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Originally Posted by pjost

TV AV s Video RCA Composite to VGA PC Monitor Converter Adapter Box | eBay

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Important: if you need a device like this, make sure that what you order is actually an "RCA to VGA" converter and not "VGA to RCA". Apparently they are not bidirectional. I found what I thought was a cheaper alternative to the above link and even asked the seller if it would do RCA to VGA. He said yes, I bought it, received it and realized it's VGA to RCA and it would not work for me.

Lesson learned. Hopefully this warning will help you avoid making the same mistake.