Using older Television Sets as Monitors

[Guest]

[roger]

I wonder if I can use my Nokia N82 mobile phone to display OQO output.

I can connect my OQO to my N82 through a USB connection and it shows up as another drive.

My N82 has a video output connector to 3 RCA plugs so I can display photos and videos, recorded with my N82 inbuilt back camera, on older TVs which have the 3 socket inputs.

Intuitively it should all work.

Has anyone tried this?

[girma]

i have a n95 and it also has the tv output. i really dont think it would work for the oqo. there would probably be some sort of converter box to get for the oqo to convert the signal to analog. let me know if you find out something?

[stuartguthrie]

I don't know much about the Nokia N82 but I doubt that this would be possible since the phone would essentially have to act as a signal converter between the OQO and the T.V. I'd think the phone (like iPods) would use its own proprietary video output. If you're wanting to do this, then I'd purchase an OQO HDMI output cable and see if you can get some kind of HDMI to composite converter.

Stu

[kyone]

HDMI to composite would be very difficult.  You would be better off going from the VGA port on the connector to composite.

Basically all new LCD and plasma TVs have HDMI so the need for a composite or component is less as time goes on.  I would still like to see a composite video output next to the VGA on the connector cable for the 03.

[stuartguthrie]

I would still like to see a composite video output next to the VGA on the connector cable for the 03.

Yep, I agree. I'd also like to see composite output built into the dock.

Stu

[charlieboy]

Guys this is a bit of a contentious point. The film studios and media owners are trying to remove all analogue interfaces and convert to digital. The reason being copy protection. So in some situations even if you have composite it might not work in the future, with a large amount of content. The first time I encountered this was on a Sony Vaio media centre, i plugged a plasma into the compostie and it worked fine as a PC monitor but could not play back DVD as it was copy protected they would only play via the HDMI.

It will be interesting to see. I beleive if I bought a DVD 10 years ago I have the right to play it on any screen I own using any player that I wn but Sony, Colubia, Universal et al do not agree.

[kyone]

DVD is not copy protected via the HDMI cable, HD Blueray is.

If you had a BR video and tried to play it over composite it should be ok because the signal will be slightly blured but no worse then the quality of composite.

[charlieboy]

Kyone

that is not the case. It seems to work in a different way I am saying it the way it happened. You cannot play a dvd over a composite or a VGA cable from a Sony Vaio Media centre PC. This is a trend that is happening. You can do everything else over that connection.

The version I had at the time did not even support Bluray. I use a PS3 for my Bluray as the Vaio with Bluray was too expensive.

[Bungee]

Seriously, it doesn't surprise me these days what you CAN'T play from X device to Y monitor anymore. Even for your simple DVD, there's like a ton of copy protection that the content publisher can choose to insert into their disks such as CSS, CPPM, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, RipGuard, FluxDVD, CORE X2.. etc, which I'm forced to use 'DVD back up' software to deal with, in order to get the content onto my iPod.