How to Convert Composite Video to Arcade RGB

If you have a game console, DVD player or computer with a composite video output and you want to send it to an arcade monitor with an RGB input, you need an electronic up-converter to change the analog video signal to a higher resolution. The simplest type of up-converter uses line doubling and results in an interlaced scan that illuminates the odd lines of the screen in one sweep and the even lines in the next. A more advanced version uses scaling, which results in a progressive scan that illuminates all lines in a single sweep, making a better picture.

Things You'll Need

• Composite video cable
• Composite to RGB converter
• RGB cable

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Push one end of the composite video cable connector into the video output jack of the signal source. Push the other end into the composite video input of the converter.

   • 2

     Connect one end of the RGB cable into the RGB output jack of the converter and the other end to the RGB input to the arcade monitor.

   • 3

     Plug the power adapter that comes with the converter into the power input jack, and plug the other end into a wall socket. Turn on both the signal source and the monitor.