Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't see any reference to it,
so here goes:

We have Sky TV piped around the house - not multiroom, just the RF2
output so that all TVs in the house see the same as the main TV. The
portable telly we have in the kitchen has gone faulty so, before buying
a new telly I was just wondering if there's a way of utilising a spare
computer monitor (with integral speakers) that we have here?

Any sort of adapter available to take an RF input from the Sky box and
turn it into the VGA and audio that the monitor wants?

Thanks

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:32:08 +0100, John wrote:



Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't see any reference to it,
so here goes:

We have Sky TV piped around the house - not multiroom, just the RF2
output so that all TVs in the house see the same as the main TV. The
portable telly we have in the kitchen has gone faulty so, before buying
a new telly I was just wondering if there's a way of utilising a spare
computer monitor (with integral speakers) that we have here?

Any sort of adapter available to take an RF input from the Sky box and
turn it into the VGA and audio that the monitor wants?

ITYF if you did it with a single box (if still available) you could
probably end up paying more than the cost of buying a small LCD
television which could also double as a monitor.
OTOH RGB to VGA seems to be fairly cheap (but seemingly dependent on
the monitor accepting the signal) so recycling an old VCR with a
working tuner might do the RFRGB part for "free" but could still fail
on the SCART to VGA part of the journey.

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:32:08 +0100, John wrote:



Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't see any reference to it,
so here goes:

We have Sky TV piped around the house - not multiroom, just the RF2
output so that all TVs in the house see the same as the main TV. The
portable telly we have in the kitchen has gone faulty so, before buying
a new telly I was just wondering if there's a way of utilising a spare
computer monitor (with integral speakers) that we have here?

Any sort of adapter available to take an RF input from the Sky box and
turn it into the VGA and audio that the monitor wants?

ITYF if you did it with a single box (if still available) you could
probably end up paying more than the cost of buying a small LCD
television which could also double as a monitor.
OTOH RGB to VGA seems to be fairly cheap (but seemingly dependent on
the monitor accepting the signal) so recycling an old VCR with a
working tuner might do the RFRGB part for "free" but could still fail
on the SCART to VGA part of the journey.


Ah well, it was worth a try. Thanks for your reply Charles.

"Charles Ellson" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:32:08 +0100, John wrote:



Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't see any reference to it,
so here goes:

We have Sky TV piped around the house - not multiroom, just the RF2
output so that all TVs in the house see the same as the main TV. The
portable telly we have in the kitchen has gone faulty so, before buying
a new telly I was just wondering if there's a way of utilising a spare
computer monitor (with integral speakers) that we have here?

Any sort of adapter available to take an RF input from the Sky box and
turn it into the VGA and audio that the monitor wants?

ITYF if you did it with a single box (if still available) you could
probably end up paying more than the cost of buying a small LCD
television which could also double as a monitor.
OTOH RGB to VGA seems to be fairly cheap (but seemingly dependent on
the monitor accepting the signal) so recycling an old VCR with a
working tuner might do the RFRGB part for "free" but could still fail
on the SCART to VGA part of the journey.

I have never seen a domestic VCR that outputs RGB on playback or E-to-E (from tuner)
They are natively Y-C devices, so at best they output S-Video or more commonly
just composite video.

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:34:15 +0100, "Graham." wrote:


"Charles Ellson" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:32:08 +0100, John wrote:



Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't see any reference to it,
so here goes:

We have Sky TV piped around the house - not multiroom, just the RF2
output so that all TVs in the house see the same as the main TV. The
portable telly we have in the kitchen has gone faulty so, before buying
a new telly I was just wondering if there's a way of utilising a spare
computer monitor (with integral speakers) that we have here?

Any sort of adapter available to take an RF input from the Sky box and
turn it into the VGA and audio that the monitor wants?

ITYF if you did it with a single box (if still available) you could
probably end up paying more than the cost of buying a small LCD
television which could also double as a monitor.
OTOH RGB to VGA seems to be fairly cheap (but seemingly dependent on
the monitor accepting the signal) so recycling an old VCR with a
working tuner might do the RFRGB part for "free" but could still fail
on the SCART to VGA part of the journey.

I have never seen a domestic VCR that outputs RGB on playback or E-to-E (from tuner)
They are natively Y-C devices, so at best they output S-Video or more commonly
just composite video.

I think I had a JVC recorder (15-20y ago ?) which had RGB on one of
the two SCARTs but anything in the last 5 years or so looks
suspiciously like it has the same basic guts inside.