Re: Christmas Pi

[des g <des@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saw there was a hdmi to vga convertor available for the Pi on cpc,
might be
worth a look?

Cheers, Des.


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Martin Howell
<martin.howell@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> I've been playing with one, I originally planned to use it to drive a
> screen in the hall to give calendar, weather and house status
> information.  I have to say that the lack of a VGA output is a major
> blocker for me - I've got a number of spare PC screens to use, but
don't
> want to invest in one with a HDMI plug'ole, and the picture from the
> composite video output is absolute pants with text pretty much
> unreadable  (although there may be some tweaks to make it better).
>
> Its a good bit of kit if you can use it plugged in to the TV, or
without
> a screen at all, but for anything else that needs a display it ain't
good=
.
>
> Martin
>
> On 16/12/2012 10:11, pjqx wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > in advance of ennui over Xmas I thought I might take the plunge
and buy
> a Raspberry Pi to play with - I like the idea of hanging XBMC on the
back
> of a TV screen.  Taken a look on Ebay and can see that the Blue
connector
> ones (they seem to be the most recent) go for about =A335 (the seem
cheap=
er
> in RS components but they have no stock).
> >
> > Before i take the plunge is there anything I should know?  I'm
almost
> certainly not going to do anything more taxing than XBMC and the like
- n=
o
> programming for instance.
> >
> > Seasons greetings etc.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >
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