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Binary Coder

Binary Coder

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Im going to be buying a new monitor and i was looking at the new Samsung SM226BW. Im going to be building a new computer and plugging that in also. I love the look of it and its a good size for my studying and watching videos and such.

But due to restrictions for furniture in my room, i was thinking of buying this monitor to replace my toshiba 21" crt tv. Now i've had some good service out of that tv, but i dont see the point having a tv and a pc monitor, takes up too much space.

Would i be able to hook the tv, dvd player and xbox 360 up through this screen so i have it all in one place, do i just need like a box to plug it into and then into the dvi port?

Any suggestions and what do you think the quality of tv and an xbox 60 would be like?

thanks
 
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Video cards these days allow for using a tv as a second monitor via s-video. X-Box and vga are not capatible. Here I can connect cable tv to an internal tv tuner card for viewing by that means. There you could try using the tv as the monitor allowing the X-Box, regular tv, and desktop application for your video card to detect the tv as the main display.
 
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PC eye

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You would need something like that in order to convert the signal output from an X-Box system into standard vga. That's why you can't go directly from a tv type gaming system into an lcd or even crt monitor. The alternative is of course is what was previously mentioned of using a tv as the monitor to combine both worlds there.
 
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