Connecting freeview box to projector

Gypo · 28 May 2010 at 11:29

We have the current setup at work:

4X Plasma Screens
1x Projector with 20ft screen

The plasma screens are connecting to a box via ethernet, then a vga cable connects the box to a vga splitter. The projector is connects to the splitter via vga cable and it all comes together via a laptop.

What we want to do is watch the world cup on the 20ft screen, we have an ariel feed and im looking at freeview boxes but can't find any with a vga out.

This is our projector: Hitachi CPA-100

Help!!

gaara · 28 May 2010 at 12:10

Can't help you but we are also trying to sort out a tv for world cup and our work as well

but that projector would be sweet for footy!!

Gypo · 28 May 2010 at 12:18

It's a rather good projector and we are desperate to watch the England game, our fallback is to watch the live stream but our BB feed from the LEA is pants.

cokecan · 28 May 2010 at 13:02

if your just looking to have the freeview on the projector only then I'd assume the projector has some kind composite or component video inputs, you could just plug any old freeview directly into this

this is assuming the aerial feed is close enough to the projector lol

the other option I can think of is maybe find a freeview box that has a component output on it as this may be easier to convert to VGA (isn't it essentially the same RGB signal?)

Firestar_3x · 28 May 2010 at 13:08

AverMedia is the company you need if you want VGA out on a freeview box, used one about 7 years ago to get Freeview into my Panasonic PW6 Plasma.

daz · 28 May 2010 at 14:47

Freeview HD boxes should output in HDMI and the Worldcup in HD should look very good on a 20ft screen. If your projector doesn't have HDMI I think your best bet would be to get an ordinary freeview PC card.

Phil99 · 28 May 2010 at 15:12

Sucks that the projector doesn't have DVI input or you could get a cheap HDMI freeview box and use that. Did the projector come with an RGB SCART adapter? That's your best bet, followed by S-Video.

Alternatively you could use a PCI/USB freeview tuner on a PC and then use VGA from that.

Whatever you do don't use composite, 1024x768 across 20ft can't be great as it is, using composite would be terrible