Hooking your PS3 up to any LCD monitor - A dummy guide

Grimspoon

Grimspoon

The Hoff
After recieving a number of "yes you can" "No you can't" replies whilst on my quest to hook up my PS3 to my LCD monitor, I went forth to investigate and can confirm it can be done and very easily at that.


It is pretty darn-gawd simple, all you need to do is buy a HDMI to DVI cable, I found one at a gaming shop in Jhb which had them for R190 which is very reasonable.

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You then need to sort our your sound. If you are wanting to use headphones you will need a 2 female RCA in to 1 female headphone jack. Like so.

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If you plan on using a sound system you can either plug the RCA's from your PS3 directly into the system if it supports this, or you will need the following converter which will convert the 2 RCA's from the PS3 into female jacks where you can plug in normal speaker jacks.


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And thats it! :cool:
 
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That bottom converter is actually very difficult to find in South Africa if you lose the ones that come with the Logitech speakers. I lost mine and I looked around for 2 weeks for a replacement but couldn't find it locally. I eventually just gave up and had it imported.
 
Blackhand said:
That bottom converter is actually very difficult to find in South Africa if you lose the ones that come with the Logitech speakers. I lost mine and I looked around for 2 weeks for a replacement but couldn't find it locally. I eventually just gave up and had it imported.
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That sucks, is there not something similar floating around?

OmegaFenix22 said:
Thanks Spooner, Now i can do this also. Sweet.
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Np boet, I just couldn't bare to play another minute on my TV, it does it no justice. ;)
 
bizzaro said:
Thanx for that. Got a friend wants do this. Does the screen have to have audio input though?
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Most screens don't have audio inputs, so you will have to use the PS3 component cable to get sound.

Either get a RCA to female headphone jack converter or get a RCA to 3 headphone jack converter. See the pics above.
 
Blackhand said:
That bottom converter is actually very difficult to find in South Africa if you lose the ones that come with the Logitech speakers. I lost mine and I looked around for 2 weeks for a replacement but couldn't find it locally. I eventually just gave up and had it imported.
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Yeah I can say the same its really hard finding one.

Grimspoon said:
That sucks, is there not something similar floating around?
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Nope noting local I could find ether. Game, makro and some audio electronic store nothing hey. This was when I was still in durbz.

Here is a link to this on Wantit all.
R153
http://www.wantitall.co.za/ViewProd.aspx?ItemNumber=B0006U3ACY
 
speedz said:
is the quality still the same if you use a HDMI-DVi cable as opposed to a HDMI-HDMI cable?
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Speedz I can't tell you, I have only ever tried with the DVI, all I can say is the quality is phenomenal. I can't imagine there would be that much difference.
 
Sockmonkey said:
I'm assuming that this will work on any console with a HDMI output?
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I haven't tried it yet myself but I don't think it'll work. The space between you HDMI plug and your normal componant plug is too small for you to be able to connect both at the same time. I could be wrong, like I said I haven't tried it yet, but that's what I think. I bought the special D-SUB (VGA) cable connector thingy. Which is the best IMHO.

Grimspoon said:
Speedz I can't tell you, I have only ever tried with the DVI, all I can say is the quality is phenomenal. I can't imagine there would be that much difference.
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I'm lucky enough that my PC monitor has an HDMI port so I don't have to get the special cable, but it might be interesting to see if there would be a dif (if any).
 
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