I was wondering if anyone has tried this or knows how to do it.
I have a 20 inch cinema display, and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL on my G5. I have wanted to try to use my monitor as a tv screen for me to play my playstation on (since I don't have a tv). I have an EyeTV system, but since there is a ~1.5 second delay time, El Gato advises against using it as a intermediary for gaming.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of a cable or adapter that I can plug the composite cable from my PS 2, a female end, and the other end is a female end for my monitor?
I found an adapter for a projector that should meet your needs if your ps2 has rgb hd cables.
composite to vga adapter
If you just have regular RCA this may not be any use to you. Let me know if this is what you need.
The Cinema displays don't have any analog inputs. They're entirely digital. So the (relatively widely available) VGA upscalers for playstations won't work for you. There's some *very* expensive VGA digitizers you could put in front of an upscaler, but you'd be a lot better off buying a TV set.
Some inexpensive digital video cameras can work as firewire video bridges. (I have a $250 Canon that can do just that.) In theory you could hook your Playstation up through that. (There's a simplistic application on Apple's developer site that lets you open up and watch video from a Firewire device, or you could just open iMovie.) I remember that being at least *close* to real time, although there might well be some delay. (Less then a second and a half, but probably a few frames.)
--Peace
thanks for the info. I wonder if apple is going to be getting into the home entertainment areana. they already sell a 30 LCD, and could easily take a mini and expand to be an entertainment unit. just have a direct link to the apple store on the desktop, start to sell movies in the store also. would be interesting to see them join El Gato, or just buy them, and encorporate that technology into new machines.
I have a 15 inch sony lcd mounted on my wall
and i want to do something like that too
Some compaines make little boxes that let you hook up a VGA display to it and it makes it into a TV. I've seen them at Wal-Mart. They're about $50. -t
There's the EyeTV wonder, a USB 2.0 product made by ATI (no longer on the EyeTV site, but you can look at the device setup in your eyetv program and should see it listed for support). It's a horrible product in most circumstances as it has NO hardware video compression. (hardware compression allows for recording at small file sizes and also accounts for the 1.5 second delay).
If you were to get the eyetv wonder (or likely the ATI Wonder, as you already have working eyetv) you would be able to use it to watch Live TV or Live A/V into the G5. Just keep in mind that you shouldn't want to use it to record with as it's going to be EXTREMELY high in CPU load and will give lackluster results. But for using as a passthrough, it should be exactly what you need for far less than a custom tailored solution. (especially since you'd need an AV-DVI-ADC adapters. That'd be well over $200)