Question!

[apocalypsos]

So I'm rearranging the furniture in my apartment (because God knows I don't have fic to finish and books to write ... *eyeroll*) and I've got a TV with a built-in VCR in my office and a perfectly acceptable flat-screen computer monitor with a bigger screen that takes up less space.

Is there a quick, easy and cheap way I can turn that monitor into a TV screen instead? It doesn't have a connection for the cable, but there's got to be some way to connect it using the place where you'd usually hook up the cord for a computer tower, right?

Comments

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

It depends on a few things. What outputs does your computer tower have? Are you even using a computer tower as an intermediary? What inputs does your monitor have? Is it just the VCR part of the combo that you want to use?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't have a computer tower. I have the flat-screen monitor that originally came with my brother's desktop, which got passed to my dad, which got passed to me a few months back because I was going to try and pick up a tower and save money on the rest of a desktop, since I've got a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

I don't want to use the TV/VCR combo. I either want to move it into the spare bedroom or get rid of it entirely, since it takes up a lot of space and I want to put the TV on the computer desk in my office and the monitor fits better. The monitor's only got the connection for the power cord and the connection for the cord that normally leads to the tower.

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you just want to jack the monitor directly into ye olde standard cable, basically?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yeah. :)

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of. :(

[yud.livejournal.com]

Some LCD monitors have s-video inputs, but if yours doesn't, you'd have to get some sort of converter box. Here's a random one I found on Ebay.