I have a wide screen LCD computer screen and was thinking about converting it into a tv screen for of course watching tv and also playing my Xbox 360 on it. I wanna use the whole screen, since it's pixels are 1280 x 800. I don't care if it does HD, I just wanna take advantage of the fact that it's wide screen. What products should I be looking at? I wanna do this afford-ably so let's not try to break the bank. I already have the monitor and the cable service.
To hook up your XBox 360 to your monitor is VERY easy. All you need to do is buy the Microsoft XBox HDAV VGA cable. It will allow you to use the XBox 360 with any computer monitor that has a standard VGA input. Using that monitor as a TV is a bit more complicated. The first thing I'd do would be to find out if that monitor is HDCP-compliant. If it is, you simply hook it up to a digital HD cable box directly through DVI or HDMI. If it is not, then you will have to get a signal converter box of some sort like the guy above linked to, though the standard-definition picture is going to look rather crappy on a computer monitor.
