How to make a TV from your old LCD monitor with your own hands
Today you can buy any TV in the store, from budget to the most prestigious model, but not everyone can afford it even then, when the old TV ordered to live long. There is an easy way out: use a computer display. You can buy a new one (in stores it is cheaper than TV) or apply unnecessary old. It remains to be seen, how to make a TV from a monitor.
We are upgrading the CRT monitor
When monitors with a screen became fashionable, then the old ones with cathode ray tubes were no longer needed, but the careful owners hid them for a while - now is the time, when you can give such an old product a second life. To the question, how to make a tv from an old monitor, there is a simple answer: it is necessary to remove the control unit from its subsoil, video card, and buy the necessary parts for re-equipment in a specialty store. The main thing, to have a VGA input - without this important one ??details it is not possible to use the monitor as a TV, and there are no problems with this, because all the monitors of the old guard have such a port to connect the system unit.
If you do not understand anything in the schemes and options for connecting TV equipment, then it will not be possible to make the TV from the monitor by own forces, this requires certain knowledge and skills.
For the future product you need to buy the following parts and components:
- The most important functional device of any TV is the chromaticity module: the quality of the image - color or black-and-white - depends on its reliable work.
- TV radio channel, its main purpose is to extract from all intermediate frequency signals only the necessary ones (video and audio).
- Control unit, which is responsible for setting up and controlling the operation of the product in manual or remote mode.
To make a TV with your own hands, we install new knots in the product case, connect them with a wire to the required modules. Perhaps, several resistors will need to be soldered to enhance the quality, then conduct a comprehensive test - and you can use the modified device as a TV.
LCD monitor connection
Today, many users have abandoned the desktop computer, and switched to more convenient laptops, therefore liquid crystal, not at all old and the monitor works perfectly will be quite suitable for its use as the TV.
Will have to look like some time for a special radio market, where spare parts are sold, parts and accessories, to buy:
- TV tuner;
- splitter and cable for digital TV connection;
- antenna and wire for its connection, if you are using a signal from a city TV network.
Before, how to go to the store, you should read the rules for choosing a tuner, cable for quality broadcasting and antennas. New product, to connect to a home electrical outlet, you will need at least two sockets - one for the tuner, and the second for the monitor itself. From the back we fix the tuner and its power supply, bring the antenna wire, plug in the cord, to activate the display. That's all the wisdom, how to make a tv monitor with your own hands.
The tuner already has a built-in speaker, so you can do with its sound, but music lovers should add external acoustics to expand the range of soundtrack. It can be a soundbar, домашній кінотеатр з сабвуфером або колонки від музичного центру. The tuner picks up signals perfectly, but unlike digital TV there is no HD quality - this is the only drawback. All settings in English, but intuitively they are clear.
We must not forget, that LCD products convey a clearer picture, where the image quality is much higher, than CRT monitors, therefore, various obstacles will be better visible.
Disadvantages of LCD monitors when watching videos
How to make a liquid crystal TV monitor, we explained, but the following points must be taken into account:
- signal response time;
- viewing angle;
- contrast and brightness;
- depth of black.
The computer display has a longer signal response time and a smaller viewing angle, and for TV - this is nonsense, therefore, the rules for watching TV for computer monitors are not relevant. In this case, the viewer must sit directly in front of a new home product, at right angles - otherwise black spots will appear, the picture will be distorted. Quality viewing is guaranteed, if you look directly at the TV. If the depth of black is not enough, all impressions will be spoiled, especially in the twilight, and when the contrast is overestimated on the screen, the viewer will observe a flat image.
Here are the negative consequences for you, if you use the LCD monitor as another TV, and do not follow the above recommendations when connecting.
Most manufactured tuners have a VGA input, and monitors - DVI and VGA, it is necessary to take into account their support of such TV parameters, both PAL and SECAM.
Connect a digital receiver
The DVB-T2 TV receiver can receive any digital programs throughout the Russian Federation, and catches programs using a conventional indoor antenna, which can be made with your own hands from the rest of the coaxial cable. We need to connect the HDMI output of the receiver to the VGA input of the monitor, so we buy a converter or adapter for a stable connection, which does not require a separate connection. It remains to connect the speakers from the computer to the output of the converter or digital receiver.
With the help of the converter you can connect to the monitor and other equipment for work and entertainment: ??notebook, game console, HD players, etc..
Home craftsmen are interested in the money issue - the price of a digital receiver starts from a thousand rubles, the converter is worth it 250 rubles, and speakers can take a desktop PC, so everything will not be so expensive.
Which monitors are better
Foreign experts have tested many monitors from different manufacturers for computers, to make a verdict, whether you can use them after finishing as a TV. In the first place is the concern from South Korea Samsung: monitors are quite easy to convert into TV, they look perfect in the new role - mostly models with a screen in 17 and 19 inches.
The second place was shared by Sony and LG, which offer users updated monitor models, its unique design. You can use products from other manufacturers with less famous names, but the quality will be lower accordingly.
When we make a TV from a monitor, then experts advise to pay special attention to the screen resolution - if it is high, then showing a homemade TV would be great.
Symbiosis of PC and TV
In principle, you can not think, how to make a tv from a monitor, and combine computer and TV functions with a special stand-alone tuner or USB. The latter is intended for direct connection to a laptop. The standalone version is the latest development, it is installed between the two products, which allows you to watch various TV shows in full screen. This symbiosis allows you to work quietly on a laptop and watch TV shows of interest in a small window.
exept this, they are equipped with various audio outputs and inputs, so that you can connect additional appliances - for example, DVD player.
Here is a video to help amateur masters in redesigning the monitor:
