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Hello everybody!

I own a fairly decent monitor: LG F900P (Flatron). For several days now I have been wondering whether I would be able to connect an Xbox to this particular monitor. Of course I am aware that normally it is quite complicated and requires special hardware, but I still have a small shred of hope... My monitor has several BNC inputs, three of them marked as RGB respectively. Monitor specs say that they are analog.

Here is a (rather bad) picture of the monitor's back panel:
- http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~olszes/LG_F900P_back.jpg (~40 KB)

The monitor has 5 BNC inputs: R, G, B, VD, COMP HD

And here are some specs:
- http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~olszes/F900P.pdf (~600 KB)
- http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~olszes/LG_Flatron_F900P.pdf  (~60 KB)

I have researched this problem using Google and some Usenet groups, but no luck so far. Today I have come across this forum and I know there are are many technology savvy people here. So... Would I be able to connect an XBox to my monitor? And if so, what additional hardware would I need (cables and so on)?

Cheers
Marcin Olszewski

looking at the PDA Frequency display it sez it goes as low as 30khz.. for RGB for a console you'll need it to run at 15khz   .. so I don't you can run your console on this monitor  (I think?)

dude, if you're that enthusiastic about using your xbox on that monitor, just buy an XRGB2. i don't see how fair picture quality on a big screen can be worse than good picture quality on a little screen.

Quotelooking at the PDA Frequency display it sez it goes as low as 30khz.. for RGB for a console you'll need it to run at 15khz

Thanks, that was the piece of information I needed. I have also found a web page: http://atarilabs.com/meat/2000/1201_rgbprimer.shtml which confirmed your guess.

Cheers
Marcin Olszewski

Transcoding is far more fun than upscanning if you can. Many XBox games run in progressive scan, and with a transcoder like the X2VGA or VD-Z3, you can get a natively progressive signal to your VGA monitor.