Okay, so I've been saving up to buy a nice, big new TV to replace the 14" 1987 RCA CrabbyTube thats been sitting in my room (and in and out of the attic) since the day I was born.
Lo and behold, another thing on my "to-buy" list was a nice, big new computer monitor to replace the 15" 2001 Dell Bundle-in-the-Box CRT. I had an epiphany in the shower: Why not simply move the entire computer set from the office into the bedroom, replacing the old TV with the new monitor by installing a TV tuner into my PC?
But theres one snag: what would I do with my consoles? I need a place to plug in all my game consoles, but am not exactly sure how I'd manage to run them on a PC. I'm planning on buying this TV tuner:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814122180
Would you know-it-all gurus be able to tell me if it would support such a feature? It dosn't have the standard-issue "RedWhite&Yellow" (RWY) plugs on the card, but couldn't I plug the console in with the included AV-input cables for the same effect? That's how you plug a TV's RWY cables into a computer, so theretically, if I have a TV tuner that's designed to emulate the effect of using a TV on my PC, shouldnt I simply plug the console's RWY cables into the tuner's AV-input cable, open up the software, set it to input from the AV cable rather than the coaxial TV cable (in the same fashion that one would change their TV to "Video Input" mode for gaming)?
But, I mean, that's just theretically. In a perfect world, that would work.
Just looking for some advice. Thanks!
Lo and behold, another thing on my "to-buy" list was a nice, big new computer monitor to replace the 15" 2001 Dell Bundle-in-the-Box CRT. I had an epiphany in the shower: Why not simply move the entire computer set from the office into the bedroom, replacing the old TV with the new monitor by installing a TV tuner into my PC?
But theres one snag: what would I do with my consoles? I need a place to plug in all my game consoles, but am not exactly sure how I'd manage to run them on a PC. I'm planning on buying this TV tuner:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814122180
Would you know-it-all gurus be able to tell me if it would support such a feature? It dosn't have the standard-issue "RedWhite&Yellow" (RWY) plugs on the card, but couldn't I plug the console in with the included AV-input cables for the same effect? That's how you plug a TV's RWY cables into a computer, so theretically, if I have a TV tuner that's designed to emulate the effect of using a TV on my PC, shouldnt I simply plug the console's RWY cables into the tuner's AV-input cable, open up the software, set it to input from the AV cable rather than the coaxial TV cable (in the same fashion that one would change their TV to "Video Input" mode for gaming)?
But, I mean, that's just theretically. In a perfect world, that would work.
Just looking for some advice. Thanks!