NTSC TV tuner for surplus PC CRT monitor

[Engineer]

Hi, everyone.
Is there an affordable TV tuner out there that receives off-air
(antenna) or cable TV and produces a good TV picture on a regular PC
monitor with only the video display connector (no PC required, of
course.) Picture need not be HD - just ordinary NTSC would be fine.
Reason: I would like to utilize a spare 17 inch IBM hi-resolutuion PC
monitor (with, IIRC, up to 70 Hz vertical scan, 1280 x 1024 pixels
and 0.24 mm dot size) as decent a basement TV since it's resale value
for the office is close to zero.
Feel free to email me at "analogdino attaboy rogers dotty as they come
com" (suitably decoded - the visible address is an anti-span fake.)
Thanks for all replies.
Cheers,
Roger

 

[PeterD]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:24:01 -0700 (PDT), Engineer
<junk2007@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi, everyone.
Is there an affordable TV tuner out ...

No.

 

[Mike]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:24:01 -0700 (PDT), Engineer <junk2007@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi, everyone.
Is there an affordable TV tuner out there that receives off-air
(antenna) or cable TV and produces a good TV picture on a regular PC
monitor with only the video display connector (no PC required, of
course.) Picture need not be HD - just ordinary NTSC would be fine.
Reason: I would like to utilize a spare 17 inch IBM hi-resolutuion PC
monitor (with, IIRC, up to 70 Hz vertical scan, 1280 x 1024 pixels
and 0.24 mm dot size) as decent a basement TV since it's resale value
for the office is close to zero.
Feel free to email me at "analogdino attaboy rogers dotty as they come
com" (suitably decoded - the visible address is an anti-span fake.)
Thanks for all replies.
Cheers,
Roger

Actually there are. If you consider $39 affordable.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1951868&CatId=1430
A Google for NTSC to VGA led to this one.

Mike


I've had a lot of bad things in my life most of
which never happened.

 

[GMAN]

In article <6d2d27a7-d3ec-4ee2-aab3-efd3f6f0b373@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Engineer <junk2007@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi, everyone.
Is there an affordable TV tuner out there that receives off-air
(antenna) or cable TV and produces a good TV picture on a regular PC
monitor with only the video display connector (no PC required, of
course.) Picture need not be HD - just ordinary NTSC would be fine.
Reason: I would like to utilize a spare 17 inch IBM hi-resolutuion PC
monitor (with, IIRC, up to 70 Hz vertical scan, 1280 x 1024 pixels
and 0.24 mm dot size) as decent a basement TV since it's resale value
for the office is close to zero.
Feel free to email me at "analogdino attaboy rogers dotty as they come
com" (suitably decoded - the visible address is an anti-span fake.)
Thanks for all replies.
Cheers,
Roger
I have bought a few off of ebay. I dont own this model but heres an ebay search

for you.


http://cgi.ebay.
com/External-TV-Box-Tuner-WXGA-SXGA-for-LCD-TFT-Monitor-VGA_W0QQitemZ2302654875
76QQihZ013QQcategoryZ3761QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


http://search.ebay.com/search/search.
dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=EXTERNAL+TV+TUNER