Here's the thing - My VGA box arrived and is very kick-ass....but It won't accept standard RF input. I'm looking for an RF modulator that takes IN RF and outputs AV/SVIDEO/RGB. I can find ones that output in RF...but not ones that take RF as an input. Thanks in advance Everyone
OK, I have to say this is a weird one... you do realize that the VGA box as such isn't a converter, right? i.e. it won't take a composite/s-video/rgb TV signal and actually upconvert it to VGA... it only adapts the VGA signal already fed in from the Dreamcast. So I'm not sure why you'd want an RF demodulator (demodulating means extracting the video/audio from a high-frequency carrier signal such as received from an antenna or cable). What did you have in mind of doing - watching cable TV on your monitor? Not that you could, anyway - but to answer your question, I can only think of using a VCR as an RF demodulator... use it to tune in to any TV channels and take the video off its "video-out" RCA jack... that's about your only option. Truth is, I'm still puzzled as to the purpose of all this. :smt017
I would love to have a separate TV tuner so I can watch TV on my PSone LCD... and one that is *not* as big as a VCR :toimonster: Tried disassembling several VCRs, closest I got was some expansion-card like thing but of course it has an undocumented edge connector so it's of no use :smt022
I leave for University this year and don't want to have to take my TV with me just so I can play my consoles. I was hoping there was some way I could use my consoles that only output in RF on my VGA box. The VCR option isn't viable either....the one I have is older than I am and doesn't even have scart sockets. ==Edit== And yes, I know in theory I could do mods to my consoles...but I'm no good at that kindof stuff.
DeathCoaster: I'm still confused as to what you actually want to do... watch TV on a PC monitor? Is that it? If so, and assuming you're going to have a PC there as well, then why not just put a TV tuner card in it... Problem solved. ;-)
Here is what I want to do - Play my Games consoles at University on my Monitor. My VGA box lets me play almost all of them...except those which are really old and only output with RF leads. I want somethign that will let me take that output and plug it into the RGB/AV/SVIDEO ports on my VGA box. I don't watch TV so I don't want to take my TV with me.....but if a TV card has a standard Ariel jack on it then I'll just buy one fo them for my older consoles.
Something simular to this could be used http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...2422>C$cip=12437>C$cip=12438&categoryId=12438 I have a built in arial socket on my pc, which i sometimes use to connect my master system up to (any other time i have my arial plugged in) i suppose this box would work in a simular way in which you would plug the console into its arial socket (the box will only display what is being fed to it in this case a console) So in theory it *should* work and im pretty sure its not excluded from the 16 day money back gaurentee so if it dosent work you can take it back :smt023
I suggest you go to the dumpster and pick up some broken VCR's... most have broken tape assemblies but the RF tuner still works! I found a very new Panasonic VCR one day, just had to re-attach a few flatcables on the inside and it even played tapes (for a few weeks... then it ate my Jacky Brown tape :Hangman: ). You'd have to find a remote, as most VCRs dont allow tuning channels with the buttons on the unit, and it should have a SCART socket of course, or at least composite output. Personally I wouldnt use a TV tuner card to connect consoles using RF, I tried that numerous times and it never worked really well, I think it's pretty picky when it comes to signal strength.
