Using the TV as a GPS screen.
Has any one adapted an analog TV to use as a monitor for an IPhone GPS program? I have an old TV that I rarely watch and it is mounted right above the dog house. It is about 19 ins diagonal and is in ...
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valhalla360 wrote:
With the cost of a modern 19" TV, it's probably cheaper to just buy a new TV.
But as others have said, it can be done.
It can be done BUT..
Analog SD TVs have very poor resolution..
You are NOT going to like the results IF you can read it at all..
I posted this sometime ago for someone else that was insisting on using analog composite video in of their vehicles display..
First pix is a PC setup at 800x600 resolution and displayed on a analog TV which has a VGA input.
Second pix is the same TV at the same resolution but through the composite analog video port..
VGA 800x600
Composite video in with 800x600
The results of the analog composite input is pretty darn ugly..
Your Ipad most likely has 1024 by something (wide screen perhaps) and you would have to downgrade that most likely to 640x something which may not be even possible on your IPad..
