hi everybody :D

for a while I have been considering buying a monitor to plug my tr5 into, and today in Staples I found this 17” lcd widescreen for £135, so couldn’t resist

I now have it set up with my tr5 in the extended desktop configuration and am very happy with it :D

but, my question is this….

the monitor has an RGB input (which is where i plugged my tr5 in) and another input labelled ‘DVI’ and I would like to know if it is possible to plug in some kind’ve tv tuner so that I can use the monitor to watch television? Since I would really like to sell my big black 1995 tv and save some space and money

any info. about suitable adaptors or boxes etc would be very very appreciated :?:

DVI is a video connector much like the VGA port expect it’s a digital connection as opposed to the analog VGA port.

To my knowledge there are no TV tuner-to-DVI products. If the monitor has s-video or composite connectors you could use a VCR or cable/satellite box to connect to it. The only other way to get TV is to add a TV tuner to your computer itself. There are a few PCMCIA/Cardbus or USB2 TV tuners around but I don’t have much experience with them so perhaps others can chime in.