We recently moved and my TVs are still wall-mounted in the old place. The house looks better that way, so hopefully it sells quicker.
Anyways, the kids have been begging for me to hook their video games back up. Since I don't want to buy new TVs until the old house sells, I looked at what I had laying around. I have an HP 2709m
27" computer monitor which should do the trick, but it only has HDMI/DVI/VGA inputs. The XBOX/WII have component and composite video outputs. I also have an Onkyo TX-SR607
receiver which upscales all the inputs to HDMI - PERFECT! This means I can hook the monitor up to the receiver with the single HDMI cable and let the Onkyo handle the input switching. I plugged it into the Onkyo, turned on the old XBOX, and all I get is a blinking display. That's it, nothing else. I tried the WII, which uses component video cables instead of composite... same thing: blinking monitor. Once in a while I will see the display for 3 or 4 seconds, but then it goes back to the on/off cycle. I even tried forcing the Onkyo HDMI output/upscaling to 480p/720p/1080i settings and nothing worked. I tried the XBOX 360, at least that works. The original signal source is HDMI, so it's not really upscaling - just HDMI switching. So, long story short... Onkyo TX-SR607 doesn't like to upscale composite/component video to an HP 2709m monitor. Either that or I one of the two in the move. :( Only time will tell.
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