StarTech Video Game Jockey
Play console video games on your computer monitor with this easy to use S-Video or RCA Audio Video connected adapter, you can even watch TV on your monitor using this and a DTV Converter.
Ease of Use, Performance: 20/25
Look & Feel: 20/25
Features 25/25
How much I enjoy 25/25
Total: 90/100
The StarTech Video Game Jockey is a great adapter that connects your console system to a VGA monitor, you can also connect any S-Video or RCA Video Audio output device to the Video Game Jockey. Using the simple VGA output to a monitor and either the RCA Audio Video connections or S-Video you can connect any device with these outputs to a VGA monitor.
The Video Game Jockey comes with the Game Jockey Adapter, a VGA cable, a 3.5mm stereo audio cable, a power adapter and the instruction manual. You will need to have a few things in order to use this with your monitor and video game system or other device as well like the console or device and the appropriate cable like an RCA Audio Video or S-Video cable.
I connected this up in a few different ways and tried out several things like a computer monitor with the Xbox 360, Wii and a DTV converter as well as a DVD player with great results. Watching television through the DTV converter and the Video Game Jockey has got to be the best use of it that I can see; you can watch DTV from a DTV converter that you purchase using the Government coupon program so it costs only about $10 or more for a DTV converter.
If you purchase this and a DTV converter you can watch digital TV on an old VGA monitor with a little setup and a pair of speakers for sound. The system works extremely well for applications like this as you simply connect the DTV converter to an antenna, hook the DTV converter to the Video Game Jockey and that to your older VGA monitor.
I have a few older monitors that only have a VGA connection and just hate to get rid of them both for the environmental reason, don’t want to pollute the environment and just dump it in the trash and recycling can actually cost me. I also just hate getting rid of perfectly good stuff that works, just not as well as I would like for my high definition or better viewing for games and other stuff for my computer.
So I have been trying to find ways to use these old monitors and found the Video Game Jockey and figured this would make a very efficient and cost saving way to watch TV on a monitor. You can of course play video games and watch movies or even home movies on the monitor and Video Game Jockey as well.