[mythtv-users] daisychain VGA-to-DVI, then DVI-to-component converters?

[James Orr]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>
wrote:

> I may purchase a pretty cheap mobo with a GeForce 7050 chipset. The mobo
> has VGA and HDMI outputs. But I also want to try component, so I'm
> thinking to put a VGA-to-DVI converter on the mobo, then hook up a
> DVI-to-component converter that I've found online.
>
> Could there be any problems with this combination?
>

I was just looking at a similar thing, the problem is the DVI to component
converter will probably need sync-on-green and this is not usually provided
through DVI (I believe radeon cards do, but nvidia certainly doesn't).

I decided to go for a card which provides component output specifically.
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