Connecting vega to old monitor - sound?

[Guest dadoftriplets]

I am going to be buying a new monitor for my pc and was considering mounting the old 19 inch monitor into the living room to connect up to my vega to stream films on during dinner time. The only issue is with the monitor and that is it doesn't have inbuilt speakers.

Before I go and buy a hdmi - vga cable, set of speakers and a mounting kit for the lot, what I want to know is would the below set up work?

Advent vega in official stand, connected hdmi /vga to the monitor and speakers plugged into the vega stand

would this setup allow picture to monitor and sound through speakers, or does the sound go through hdmi output? If not, is there any other way of going about it to do what i'm after?

I hope this makes sense to you all.

Thanks in advance

[Guest Durbybard]

Hiya...

Ok, just done a test on my plasma tv connected via hdmi and yes, sound is transmitted thru hdmi, it does NOT send sound to the headphone jack as i just tested my headphones, no sound thru phones but sound on TV

So for me i would maybe look at a TV and not just a PC monitor, that way you get picture and sound, and if you have an aerial near by then freeview tv also..

The vega set my TV to 1080p even tho the file was a 350mb tv episode and not 1080p quality, it looked good on both screens, and yes it plays on both screens at the same time, had no lag or judder, altho the colours on the TV seemed a bit sharp, maybe the tv setup tho.

I am running Corvus5 SP1 with Honeycomb theme, Launcher Pro and a Live Wallpaper and widgets and runs smooth on my tv...

Hope this helps Chris

[Guest IanTurner]

HMDI is digital, vga is analogue so you would require a converter box in the middle.

The converter will cost at least £40 possibly more as most of the converters are for vga out and hdmi in for connecting older laptops to your tv.

Only marginally more expensive to get a new monitor with integrated speakers at £80

Edited August 2, 2011 by IanTurner

[Guest dadoftriplets]

thanks for the replies

IanTurner - it would be kind of defeating the purpose of buying a new monitor for use with the vega when I want to buy a new one for the pc and find a use for the old one - I was looking at getting at 24" for the desktop and then just using the old monitor for this project should I be able to get some form of set up working.

This is the cable I was looking at, which, in the description says it can be used to connect a PS3 to a VGA monitor? Is this not correct? Yes it does mention something about reversing the cable, so connecting a computer to a hdmi tv would require the convertor box, but nothing about the other way around?

As an aside, hypothetically (and not really on topic for this forum) is there a way of connecting a vga monitor to a freeview box/scart dvd player as this is the alternative to using the vega? (buying the new monitor and having dual screens on the desktop and picking up a blu ray player to replace the living room upscaler which would be moved downstairs)

Edited August 2, 2011 by dadoftriplets

[Guest IanTurner]

er what cable ?

Looking at the ones at £16.99 that have a small block in the middle and rca component connectors as well there seems to be

an indication that the quality is variable , does not work on some monitors and I'm wondering where the adapter gets its

power from as I'm dubious the vega would output sufficient power without the dock.

Edited August 2, 2011 by IanTurner

[Guest dadoftriplets]

I apologise - I had every intention of adding a link to the cable I was looking aty but got distracted by the kids. Sorry

This is the cable that I was looking at

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GOLD-3M-HDMI-MALE-SVGA-VGA-M-CONVERTER-A-V-CABLE-/220703775648?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item3362f85ba0

[Guest IanTurner]

I apologise - I had every intention of adding a link to the cable I was looking aty but got distracted by the kids. Sorry

This is the cable that I was looking at

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3362f85ba0

Looks like this one which is a con as the reviews mention.

Note the comment at the end of that ebay item that says

NOTES: IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS CABLE TO CONNECT FROM YOUR COMPUTER TO HDMI TV, YOU WILL NEED AN ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER (NOT INCLUDED)

Which is weaseling out. You can't connect digital directly to analogue without a converter and this cable is useless as you would connect an hdmi output to a converter with a straight hdmi cable.

These are what I was referring to as cheap and seemingly unreliable otherwise there is the hd fury or similar products at £40+ which if you add the cost of speakers in is heading in the direction of the cost of a new monitor with speakers anyway.

[Guest HypoTurtle]

I am going to be buying a new monitor for my pc and was considering mounting the old 19 inch monitor into the living room to connect up to my vega to stream films on during dinner time. The only issue is with the monitor and that is it doesn't have inbuilt speakers.

Before I go and buy a hdmi - vga cable, set of speakers and a mounting kit for the lot, what I want to know is would the below set up work?

Advent vega in official stand, connected hdmi /vga to the monitor and speakers plugged into the vega stand

would this setup allow picture to monitor and sound through speakers, or does the sound go through hdmi output? If not, is there any other way of going about it to do what i'm after?

I hope this makes sense to you all.

Thanks in advance

There is currently a bug in the Test 44 VegaComb build (haven't reported it yet), but it would solve the sound issue, currently through HDMI the image is smaller than the screen (by about a 1/5, but this should be easily fixed) and the sound is still played through the vega so if you do get the screen hooked up you wouldn't need the extra speakers (sound in the test VCombs is greatly increased).

[Guest IanTurner]

There is currently a bug in the Test 44 VegaComb build (haven't reported it yet), but it would solve the sound issue, currently through HDMI the image is smaller than the screen (by about a 1/5, but this should be easily fixed) and the sound is still played through the vega so if you do get the screen hooked up you wouldn't need the extra speakers (sound in the test VCombs is greatly increased).

I suspect the cost will make this entire project impractical

Edited August 5, 2011 by IanTurner