Seen one on gaybay, silly cheap, but the seller says it needs a tuning box to work? Anyone any idea what a tuning box is/does (apart from tune diesel engines?)

 

All he is selling is a large monitor you would need something to turn the signals into a picture i hope this helps

 

just use a digi box and will work fine

 

so will a cable box or even a video, thats what i use on my projector

 

I've currently got a projector and that all runs through an A/V receiver (sky box and dvd player etc). I presume it would just be a matter of plugging a s-video lead from my A/V receiver into this?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...EWA:PIC&ih=011

 

thats a scetchy ad mate

 

^^^^^

wot i thought

hasnt seen it work but he know it goes on standby ??

and that cheap

 

Too good to be true I thought. But might be worth the risk? could always sell it on?
My projectors gone pop though and i'm gonna need at least a 42" tv to watch now!!!
Unless anyone can get me a lamp for an NEC VT460 on the cheap

 

Think he is talking bollox as he is selling faulty TV's in his other auctions

 

Many of the earlier plasma's, mainly Fuji and Pioneers, tho also applies to "lesser" known brands, needed a "media box" as they didn't have TV inputs - by that I mean S-Vid, Scart, HDMI, composite, etc etc. The Media Box allowed a variety of connections (as mentioned above) to be plugged in, then a single "data" cable ran from the media box to the screen. The screen itself was just a monitor - most had VGA and BNC inputs for computers, but no audio or TV inputs.

 

buy it and do a insurence job on it

 

Take a laptop with you and a vga cable to test it

 

Except as Thrush says, ALL the usual input connectors are on the tuner (The Techwood has a power input & their own Tuner box > Screen input)

 

Ahh ok

Well take a tuner with you, I'd rather lose the cost of a tuner, than the cost of a tuner AND a screen.

Mind you, the tuners are probably the same price

 

And specific to the screen brand/model - so if it's a Pio plasma, you need a Pio media box thats compatible with that screen model.....