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New member Username: SteffPost Number: 1 Registered: Oct-05 | My husband bought a PDP503CMX from someone a couple of years ago. He thought it would work like a TV, but it was only a monitor. He added a video card so that he could watch DVDs, but now we want to watch cable TV on it. He has been pricing tuner boards and we have only found the AURORA board for $900, which is more than we want to spend to convert this monitor to a TV. Is there another way to do it? Or, is there a cheaper tuner? We're newbies to this kind of thing and any help is appreicated. We will be using a cable TV box. |
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Tom Farmer Unregistered guest | what about this? https://www.digitalconnection.com/store/Product_Details.asp?ProductCode=A304HDCP |
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AMSTEL-light Unregistered guest | You don't need to buy any extra card. The Cable Box has a tuner. You can also use any VCR. |
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Unregistered guest | Can you go into a little more detail. Im in the same boat. Im getting the screen very soon but will only be using it for cable tv, dvd player. and satellite tv. |
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Bronze Member Username: NcavmanN.C. Post Number: 85 Registered: Dec-03 | Cards for the Panny plasma CMX's are only $150-250. You don't need to buy anything though, use a cable box or satellite receiver and use whatever connection you have available already... Component, HDMI, or S-vid if you have to. If DVD works already you don't need to buy anything to watch TV (other than cable or sat recr). |
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Silver Member Username: Rysa4Post Number: 211 Registered: Jul-05 | 1. DVDs- Connect a DVD video out directly to display or through a reciver with Video inputs and outputs. ( or a switcher box) 2. TV/Cable/Satellite- you will need an external tuner- set top box, VCR, Cable card if your TV has a slot for it ( I have my doubts on that one given two years ago purchase). The video output from any external tuner would be connected directly to a video input on the monitor. S- Video or component is fine. Your monitor may not have an HDMI input if purchased two years ago. I wouldnt recommend composite connection as its a big step down in picture quality. |