jodat2 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Hi all. I am looking at purchasing a couple of monitors for a church venue which currently uses a single Panasonic ptl735u projector.For services, they currently use an SD card with the presentation on it which is put directly into the projector. The projector has a VGA monitor output which I have tried to connect the monitor to but have got no signal. (I made sure the VGA port was chosen as an output in the options menu instead of the 2nd VGA input) So my questions are Is this VGA monitor output just a feed from the VGA input? Is there a way to use both VGA monitors with the current setup? (they still want the presentations to be on SD card and controlled via projector remote) Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 I don't know that projector intimately, but would be fairly confident that the VGA Output will only mirror the VGA1 input. I wouldn't expect there to be an easy way to use the projector to playback the SD card and send it to the additional monitors. I think that you'll need to look at an external player that can feed both the Projector and screens most probably via a Distribution amplifier of some description. The cheapest might be an old-ish spec PC running a flavour of Linux with open office, and then a DA with the cabling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzAV Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Totally agree with Pete, your church will have to decide if they want to use the SD cards or have these external monitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodat2 Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Thanks for the replys I was having a look the other day and found a VGA to Video(RCA, VGA and S-Video) Converter unit. Would this work if I were to connect this unit to the RCA video out of the projector and run the monitors off the converter or are they still going to face the same problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Lee Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 According to the manual, the projector in question does not have a video (composite, SVHS or component) out so your scan convertor wouldn't help. http://www.projectorcentral.com/pdf/projec...manual_2111.pdf Reading between the lines, the RGB out is a loop through of RGB1 (it is named "RGB1 out" ) and will not display an image for any other source. A phone call through to Panasonic UK should resolve that one for certain. So I would have to go with what Pete and JazzAV have said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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