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I was wondering if anybody knew about hooking up a Playstation 2 to an LCD computer monitor, because I really want to.

I've been looking around on the internet a lot. When I find a product that appears to be good, I read a bunch of reviews on how the screen is constantly flickering and blurs, doesn't work well and messes up your LCD screen, or doesn't work with most PS2 games.

I've been looking around a lot, and would appreciate the help.

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no help for you, sorry. but i sure would like to find out myself. my computer monitor is bigger than my tv, so i'd love to play PS2 on it. i did recently find out a bit about tv tuners for computers. they are pretty dang cool, but a bit more difficult for mac users, apparently.

oh yeah, to mooch off your thread, if anyone has info, but for any reason it would be different for Apples, let me know?

The only consoles that i know of that can/will be able to do this are all the Next Gen consoles. I have my 360 hooked up to my monitor right now!

check google for PS2 To Computer VGA Cable or something involving PS2 and VGA Cable.

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i have an idea.
oh, wait. no. i don't. i was thinking S-Video cable, but i was wrong.
i suppose all you need is some sort of USB plug that has A/V cables on the other end. i'm sure it exists. no, wait. that wouldn't work. i have no idea.
maybe all this isn't worth the trouble.

incidentally, cola, how does hooking up a next-gen to a monitor go? pretty easy?

Unless you have some kind of fancy monitor with the appropriate inputs, you'll need some magic converter box, like this thing, to convert the signals...
Note: Just one of the results from Google... there may be others that are better, I didn't look at them all.

Composite video and VGA are rather different signal encodings, it takes some processing to convert one to the other, which is what that box does.

NB: I don't own a PS2, so I don't know what signal formats it supports... I'm assuming that it at least does composite and/or S-Video, most stuff that plugs into a tv does, but if there are other options you might be able to find a cheaper converter box for that format.

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Really easy. the 360 is standing tall right now next to my tower, I have a VGA switcher that with a simple press of a button, It switches from the Comp to the 360. Plus it looks absolutely great, Except for CoD3, it looked like i was playing it on an HDTV sitting on the floor 3 feet away from it.

Its actually quite worth it, Now i can watch TV, Use the computer, and Play video games at the same time. Plus i only need one Keyboard, It works on both systems!

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Just get a TV tuner PCI card

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That wont work and would cost more than just to find teh cable.

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Yeah it will...kind of. And the right cable doesn't exist. atleast its not made by Sony. Sony only makes an s-video and component cable

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Many TV tuner cards will accept S-Video and/or Composite input, since a TV signal is just a Composite signal broadcast on some carrier... so all the decoding circuitry is already on the card.

However, the composite video signal cannot be converted to a VGA signal without quite a bit of processing... the composite has to be decomposed into luminance and chrominance (basically "brightness" and "colour"), then those signals need to be converted to red/green/blue. There probably has to be some tweaking done with the resolution... playing with the number of scanlines (most of the converter boxes I can find mention scanline-doubling in the features).

It's not something that can just be done in a cable, you need some kind of expensive box. It is still cheaper than a video capture card, though of course a video capture card can be used for so many more things...

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