Is it posible for me to hook up a regular computer monitor to my Directv box and use it as my TV receiver?

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Originally Posted by doug1943

Is it posible for me to hook up a regular computer monitor to my Directv box and use it as my TV reciever?

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Do your cables fit between the two devices? They usually don't match.

Computer monitors and TV's use vastly different video systems. You can buy adapters. I in fact have one, a View Sonic. It has inputs for ''S'' video, RCA jacks for video and sound, computer RGB, and RF. I have my TV antenna connected to a DVD/VCR. It feeds the View Sonic. If I can figure out which buttons to push, I can choose to display the computer, the VCR, the DVD, or a TV broadcast on the computer monitor. Sound from any input can go to a box radio I have connected to the View Sonic. It is a VB50HRTV. My son in law picked it up at Circuit City. There are some other devices too.