Digital TV and XBOX on LCD Monitor

[danrock]

I have a Dell 2005fpw LCD monitor and want to watch TV and play XBOX on it. It has VGA input, DVI input (which is how my computer is hooked up), S-Video, and Composite. I have tried just hooking the XBOX up in the composite input, but it doesn’t look very clear. I was wondering what a good way would be to get XBOX and TV on the monitor. I was thinking maybe getting an XGA box (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=222&products_id=3235&) and a digital cable box. And just switching between the XBOX and TV when I needed to. I was also thinking about a TV tuner that has video inputs for the XBOX. The last method I was thinking was getting an X2VGA (http://www.x2vga.com/) which is a HD to VGA for the XBOX, it also has a VGA input, so I was wondering if there was a digital cable box that I could get that had VGA out so that I could just plug that into the X2VGA. Any information that anyone has on the pros and cons of these methods would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dan

[edDV]

"XGA box" is unlikely to get better results
here is another http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/video-vga_adapter.html or
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/kd-ctca2.htm

The X2VGA+ may work.
I'd make sure the return policy is adequate.

[joepic]

I have a Dell 2005fpw LCD monitor and want to watch TV and play XBOX on it. It has VGA input, DVI input (which is how my computer is hooked up), S-Video, and Composite.

Using the Composite output from the Xbox is poor quality. I purchased the S-Video adapter for $20 and I am very happy with the quality. I do not have a HD TV with DVI input to compare the quality difference between S-Video and DVI.

If you use S-Video you do not need to switch your DVI connectors as each device is connected to a different input. Also they make DVI switch boxes for 2 or 4 inputs if that is what you want.