VGA to Component Adapter

[lobo_pac]

building a small pc for pvr and htpc capabilities. it will be hooked to a 27" standard tv with no hd or anything special. is there an adapter that will simply go from the vga monitor output to a component video cable? the reason i'd like to go to component video is that if i hook it via component instead of s-vido i can use the recieiver of my home theatre to do switching. there's an e-bay auction here that looks like it might work. any thoughts?

[simbob]

cant see any reason why it wouldnt work

[lobo_pac]

actually....just saw that this doesn't work......it doesn't work for pc out to component. it's actually the other way around....from component to vga in.

bummer.

[lobo_pac]

i've never seen it, but are there any vid cards that have component vid out?

[AMD2400]

i've never seen it, but are there any vid cards that have component vid out?

ATI All in Wonder 9600XT has it, but you have to buy the adaptor separately.
http://www.ati.com/products/hdtvadapter/index.html

YPrPb component video adapter (cable) is included with the North American All-in-Wonder 9800 PRO and All-in-Wonder 9700 PRO.

[DanU]

Converters for VGA to component seem to run about $100+. They need some fairly sophisticated electronics to convert the colorspace from RGB to YPbPr, scale the resolution and refresh rate to NTSC, and convert from progressive scan to interlaced. A simple cable will not work.

[Peter M]

All recent ATI cards support component-out, dongle available from ATI online store.