Continuing from yesterday, I thought a description of the YPbPr to RGBHV VGA Box might be helpful:
It is a small box, only about 3 inches long by 1 inch wide, and less than a 1/2 inch thick. At one end is a VGA input adapter, and at the other end a VGA output adapter. At the bottom are three inputs that are labeled Pr, Y and  Pb and colored red, green and blue, into which a standard AV cable like the Belkin Component Video Cable could be plugged. Finally there is a switch that toggles between VGA input and AV cable input.

I had tried connecting it to my primary monitor going from VGA in to VGA out, and for some reason it did not seem to remember the settings and made the picture quite dull.

Before hooking up the PlayStation 3, I decided to use my secondary monitor – which is a smaller LCD monitor hooked up to Desktop PCs I don’t use that much. My Xbox 360 was also connected to it, so I had to disconnect all its cables first. When I hooked up the VGA box to my secondary monitor, it also made the picture quite dull.

It was then that I should have stopped. Of course I didn’t. I connected the PlayStation 3 to the VGA input. When the PlayStation 3 started, something flashed on the screen, a message about reducing resolution to 16xx by – I could not make out the rest of the message. After that the LCD monitor was blank, even though it was on. The On Screen menu did not display. I connected the LCD monitor up to a Desktop PC. Nothing, it was dead.