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Title: CCTV monitor help
Post by: omegod on 08 January 2013, 15:56:00
In work( a charity) we have a crappy black and white( OLD ) cctv monitor that basically shows the back entrance and it has gone U/S. We are leaving the site very soon and have been quoted £250 for a replacement.

Question is we have scores of computer monitors lying around but the connections are VGA blue thingies on these but the input to the CCTV monitor is a coax old fashioned telly type.

Does a converter socket exist ??? I can't frigging find one if there is!!
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 16:08:24
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/200869164285?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla&crdt=0
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: PhilRich on 08 January 2013, 20:48:46
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/200869164285?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla&crdt=0






Carefull Steve, you'll have RobG on the Warpath, links & fings are his speciality! ;D
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 20:51:11
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/200869164285?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla&crdt=0






Carefull Steve, you'll have RobG on the Warpath, links & fings are his speciality! ;D
The ignorant, scouse bastard never even said thanks, Phil  :(
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 January 2013, 20:52:46
I suspect that your CCTV is a single BNC for composite video. Monitors don't support this in general and adaptors are pricey.

Just get an old TV and use the scart feed (scart has composite as an input plus rgb as an option)
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 20:55:55
I suspect that your CCTV is a single BNC for composite video. Monitors don't support this in general and adaptors are pricey.

Just get an old TV and use the scart feed (scart has composite as an input plus rgb as an option)
If he gets an old tv, the coax will go straight in. ;D :P
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 January 2013, 20:56:38
I suspect that your CCTV is a single BNC for composite video. Monitors don't support this in general and adaptors are pricey.

Just get an old TV and use the scart feed (scart has composite as an input plus rgb as an option)
f he gets an old tv, the coax will go straight in. ;D :P

That would be an OLD tv
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Andy B on 08 January 2013, 21:03:52
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That would be an OLD tv

All TVs still have a coax socket don't they. We've a brand new one upstairs with one, that's what it's using for reception
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 January 2013, 21:06:34
Not capable of receiving composite (baseband) signals via the ref port  :y
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Vamps on 08 January 2013, 21:07:10
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That would be an OLD tv

All TVs still have a coax socket don't they. We've a brand new one upstairs with one, that's what it's using for reception

I thought that, and that you use the scart lead to plug in other equipment...... ::) ::)
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 21:09:03
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That would be an OLD tv

All TVs still have a coax socket don't they. We've a brand new one upstairs with one, that's what it's using for reception

I thought that, and that you use the scart lead to plug in other equipment...... ::) ::)

Its awake!
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Vamps on 08 January 2013, 21:10:44
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That would be an OLD tv

All TVs still have a coax socket don't they. We've a brand new one upstairs with one, that's what it's using for reception

I thought that, and that you use the scart lead to plug in other equipment...... ::) ::)

Its awake!

 :D :D :D :P :P
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 21:10:50
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That would be an OLD tv

All TVs still have a coax socket don't they. We've a brand new one upstairs with one, that's what it's using for reception
Mark was waiting for me to say that....but I didn't  ;D
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 January 2013, 21:12:07
Ah yes, the pitfalls that are video connections
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: STMO123 on 08 January 2013, 21:14:09
Ah yes, the pitfalls that are video connections
I just stick with what I have and, when I'm ready, buy a bundle.
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Andy B on 08 January 2013, 21:29:57
Not capable of receiving composite (baseband) signals via the ref port  :y

OK  :y :y
Title: Re: CCTV monitor help
Post by: Kevin Wood on 08 January 2013, 22:25:43
I'd just get a monitor on ebay. Needed one to fire up an old computer a year or so ago. Bought a monitor off Ebay. New old stock monochrome CCTV monitor with composite video input. :y

20 quid shipped. When it turned up it was actually a colour one too, and brand new, boxed and unused.

Anything with a CRT can be picked up for peanuts these days.