Nick

Hi

We have a TV in our bedroom that's linked to our CCTV system via coax into a digital modulator. The image is in reasonable quality colour & is usually left on quad display (4 picutres on the screen). The TV is left constantly on standby & is old & big. We don't watch TV in bed - this is just used to review the CCTV if our proximity alarm goes off.

I'd like to get an LCD screen to do this, which should be cheaper to run & take up a lot less space. We would need a remote control.

Should I get an LCD TV to do this, or is there some way to get a coax feed into VGA? My wife has a 15" Iiyama Prolite H380 which isn't very good & I'd like to get her something better. It's got a D-Sub & DVI input. Could we use this, with something like the Acer AX120?

Acer AX120:
http://www.misco.co.uk/productinform...~WW~/index.htm

Iiyama H380:
http://www.iiyama.co.uk/default.asp?...=236&PROD=2274

Regards
Nick

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The Pro-V will do RF to VGA for about £85. Combine the RF from the CCTV with a UHF antenna feed and you functionally have an LCD TV too.

http://www.keene.co.uk/cgi-bin/bigcodesearch.pl?PV200

Nick

Thanks for your reply

I'll check out the Zinwell unit. I'm not sure that it gives us much more than the Acer unit - which is a fair bit cheaper. However the Zinwell unit looks interesting for a customer's issue.

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Nick,

The Acer unit is a USB based video capture board for getting video into a PC for editing etc. It doesn't add those inputs to a standalone LCD panel. From your post I read that you are looking simply to get the CCTV RF feed into an LCD panel and you are wondering whether you need to buy a panel with "TV" functionality to do this, or if you can use a "PC spec." screen which typically doesn't have the extra inputs like RF, composite etc.

HTH,
Alex

Nick

Hi Alex

You are correct in your last post. I wasn't aware that the Acer unit is USB & in fact - I (gulp) ordered one last night!

Here's the list of interfaces & features from the Ingram Micro site:
1 x TV antenna - input ¦ 1 x display / video - composite video input - RCA ¦ 1 x display / video - S-video input ¦ 1 x display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) ¦ 1 x audio - line-out - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
Operates even without a PC; Up to 1024 x 768 pixel resolution; Simple Plug and Play; Convenient Remote Control.

As far as I can tell, it looks as though it does what I want... I'm a bit worried now about the USB thing though...

Regards
Nick

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Nick,

My bad... no need to worry. I've just read the user product reviews on eBuyer and it does do exactly what you want. The USB capture feature is a bonus, I think you've found a bargain.

Nick

Hi Alex

Thanks for the review link. I'm not sure I understand the USB capture thing - but I'll probably figure it out when I have the unit in my hands.

Regards
Nick

Nick

Feedback to the forum

I've set up the Acer box & it's easy to use & has a very good quality picture. It does just what I wanted - view TV pics on an LCD screen. There are multi inputs, so you can switch inputs using the remote - just like a regular TV.

Regards
Nick