Hi all,
Basically I am buying a new house in a few months time, I want an integrated AV/Automation/Security system which I have most of it figured out in terms of ways of doing things and the products I need as well as what exactly I want.
There is one thing I am still unclear though - video distribution.
At the moment I have a media centre PC hooked up to an LCD running 1366x768 via VGA in the living room. I want to distribute this to the dining room, bathroom and bedroom. I only need these to display whatever the living room LCD is showing.
The dining room will have another LCD running 1366x768, so I can just use a VGA splitter/replicator or even the second output on the graphics card, no problems.
The bedroom and bathroom however will have small 7-10" LCDs only accepting RCA or S-video. I have looked at stand-alone VGA>RCA converters but they only support computer resolutions, i.e. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc. And graphics cards don't support TV-out when it is set to 1366x768 resolution either.
In short I need to distribute from a VGA feed to RCA or S-video outputs.
Sound is okay as I will just use coaxial digital or RCA.
So what do I need to do? Any advice please? Ideally looking for a solution less than £200.
And to further complicate things... eventually I will have a bigger LCD running 1920x1080, possibly via HDMI too, to replace the current living room LCD. What are my options?
Thanks.
Basically I am buying a new house in a few months time, I want an integrated AV/Automation/Security system which I have most of it figured out in terms of ways of doing things and the products I need as well as what exactly I want.
There is one thing I am still unclear though - video distribution.
At the moment I have a media centre PC hooked up to an LCD running 1366x768 via VGA in the living room. I want to distribute this to the dining room, bathroom and bedroom. I only need these to display whatever the living room LCD is showing.
The dining room will have another LCD running 1366x768, so I can just use a VGA splitter/replicator or even the second output on the graphics card, no problems.
The bedroom and bathroom however will have small 7-10" LCDs only accepting RCA or S-video. I have looked at stand-alone VGA>RCA converters but they only support computer resolutions, i.e. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc. And graphics cards don't support TV-out when it is set to 1366x768 resolution either.
In short I need to distribute from a VGA feed to RCA or S-video outputs.
Sound is okay as I will just use coaxial digital or RCA.
So what do I need to do? Any advice please? Ideally looking for a solution less than £200.
And to further complicate things... eventually I will have a bigger LCD running 1920x1080, possibly via HDMI too, to replace the current living room LCD. What are my options?
Thanks.
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