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Posted on Mar 10, 2008

Trying to use rgb input

My viewsonic keeps coming up with no signal on all my inputs. I plug into the cable (ant) and I hear sound no (pic) and it cuts out and goes to no signal. I hook up to my computer through the rgb input it works just fine. Can I somehow use the rgb input or dvi input to play cable/dvd player? I purchased a rgb cable to rca and tried it to a dvd player but comes up no signal?

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Cable TV: Connect the LCD TV to the cable with CATV and Digital cable. Preset the cable TV channels into memory with Auto Scan function when using a cable TV system. Make sure you set the INPUT SOURCE properly (TV, VGA, S-Video, etc)

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