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Laptop as a PS2 screen

Postby Shao Feng-Li » Fri May 16, 2008 2:48 pm

I think need some sort of TV Tuner.

I'd like to be able to use my laptop as a TV for my Playstation. I have a PCI express slot (Or whatever is it Dell puts in an Inspiron|E1705 laptop), and I know tuners can go in there.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Mon May 19, 2008 7:05 am

Is this a tech forum or what?
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Tue May 20, 2008 6:02 am

It's a PC Express slot. I have a PC Express TV tuner.

A TV tuner receives (usually) digital TV signals, and streams it to your computer. Thus, the source of the video/sound is only through broadcast TV. Does your PS2 broadcast TV signals? Usually no... so... it's unlikely you'll be able to. Not many laptops do have a video in port.
You may be able to get a video in RCA-to-USB device or something... I'm not sure how much they are or if it would be worth it. Maybe around the same as a TV tuner.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Tue May 20, 2008 8:46 am

I know a lot of TV tuners have RCA jacks...
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Tue May 20, 2008 11:06 pm

EDIT: Actually, it's called "ExpressCard".

Not ExpressCard laptop ones... you'd probably have to go USB.
And I'm not sure, but digit tuners generally might not, unless they're analogue/digital combined tuners.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Wed May 21, 2008 12:09 pm

Ahh.
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Postby NuclearPeon » Mon May 26, 2008 7:12 pm

Theoretically it can work. You'll need a TV-In card and a cable converter box (red white and yellow cable to VGA) which could then be plugged in to TV-In card.

I have that setup on my desktop at home. It works for plain ol' LCD monitors, so it should work for laptops. It may set you back $60 or more.
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