This Blog Entry was going to be called A Christmas Story - more with the irony of Jean Shepherd than the true Christmas Story, but one needs to be politically correct in these times.

So, I got my Christmas present (”Holiday/Seasonal Gift?”) and spent some time figuring out how I was going to hook it up to my LCD monitor. Unlike the Xbox 360, for which you can buy a VGA adapter cable, the Sony PlayStation 3 has no similar simple solution. About 18 months ago, when I was choosing a gaming console, my first choice was the PlayStation 3, until I came up against this problem of no VGA adapter cable being available. Then I chose the Xbox 360, this time I chose the PlayStation 3. I had found the “YPbPr to RGBHV VGA Box”, which supposedly takes YPbPr (component input, that is from the PlayStation 3) and converts it to RGBHV (Monitor, LCD, TV) output.

First I connected the YPbPr to RGBHV VGA Box to my current LCD monitor and two desktop PCs setup. Something wasn’t right. Not only was my Windows Desktop on both machines duller and harder to read, but every time I booted on of the PCs I had to fiddle with the LCD monitor’s onscreen menu to get it to auto adjust. Okay, just a minor problem, I thought…

 (to be continued)