Can I hook this up to my cable box and also use it as another tv monitor?
1978265
Yes but it will need to be through hdmi. The monitor also has no speakers so you will need to use headphones or some other means of listening to the audio.
446157
Hi Gordon, yes, you can. Just connect the HDMI cable to your computer for you to use it as a monitor. Thanks_Mitch
1352485
Should be able to do it since it has a HDMI input. I'm using a component converter from my cable box as I have an older cable box that doesn't have HDMI output but I just went in and looked and it has the HDMI input as shown in the product description.
864298
you might need an rca Y adapter for both channels if you want to get best usage ... check if you are plugged into the audio output of the TV or the audio output of the cable box would be better
153863
Yes, you could use this monitor as your primary computer monitor.........you would need to get a DVI to HDMI conversion switch.....plug the computer into the DVI side and the monitor to the HDMI side. I have read posts on other web sites where people have already hooked this monitor up to their computer and they love it.
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If your cable box supports HDMI, yes. But you'd be better off getting an actual TV which features switchable inputs and channels.
14777
You have to put it in HDMI-for use as a computer monitor.Other HDMI inputs,won't work.Check your tv,owner manual,on input devices.Another thing is,is that you hook everything up,before you turn on your computer,otherwise it will show wrong format,on your tv screen.
2228635
Thanks for the quick response. I am still getting 2 different answers. It sounds like if you hook it up before the Cable Box or TV that you can do both.
516712
yes you can, but this device has 4 inputs and 2 outputs meaning you could hook it up to 4 cable boxes but you can only display it on 2 tvs, so i don't thinks it's what you are looking for
74739
Since there is only a single VGA input then no this monitor cannot "double" as a TV and computer use. It may be possible to convert the TV output to VGA (not sure how) but then you have to be disconnecting and reconnecting cables when going from TV to computer. Most people would not consider this as double duty. Due to the problems with vertical viewing angle though, I would not recommend this monitor for TV viewing as the picture degrades pretty severely off-axis.
197046
You should be able to hook into whatever monitor you have so long as you have the correct cable and adapter. THere are a variety of adapters that can fit into the Thunderbolt port which supports video
869274
You can hook it up to the cable box with a standard HDMI cable; nothing special is required
1110296
One more time.... not directly to your cable outlet. You can connect the output of a cable box to this unit. You need to connect via hdmi or vga. There is no F connector or tuner in this unit.
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Yes, its called HDMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI....Get that cable and connect to monitor, should be good to go,,,,
1429660
Not beyond setting it up. You have to configure the thing. Once that's done,no you do not. Oncecconnected to the TV and turned on it will show up as an external monitor. TV must be setto pproper HDMI input and visit launched on the computer.
662778
Don't know we just set it up for the tv, don't need a cable box it's only basic cable. Sorry.
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yes u can connect to any cable box via HDMI port, but u need external speaker for sound , BY connecting RCA cable from the cable box . Right now im using this monitor as a TV with cox cable box .For sound i use samsung hw e350 sound bar , connecting RCA to the cable box.