How Do You Hook Up A PC Monitor To A DVD Player?
Even if you have a nice television, hooking a PC monitor up to a DVD player is a great way to view your favorite movies from the comfort of your computer desk. Although some technical knowledge of inputs and outputs is helpful, as long as you know how to match cables, getting it all hooked up is a fairly simple process. Compare your monitor’s inputs with your DVD player’s outputs. Every monitor will have a VGA input, a standard input that is long and skinny and has several pins; every DVD player has a composite output of red, white and yellow prongs. If these are the only inputs or outputs you can find, you will need an adapter. However, if you can find DVI or S-Video outputs or inputs on both your monitor and your DVD player, you can hook them up directly and skip Step 2. If you do not have matching inputs and outputs, you will need to find an adapter that will resolve the different formats. The most common is a composite-to-VGA adapter, which uses the standard red, yellow and white c
