sky on a monitor?

ive basically got a great deal on sky but not yet purchased a HDTV, i currently have a 2407wfp monitor in the same room which sky will be installed, can sky be viewed on a pc monitor?

its got a load of connections -
component, composite, dvi, vga

or can sky only be viewed via HDMI?

edit: also forgot to add that i have a possible optical connection for the sound output (all them video connections on the monitor are video only!)

I'll assume we are talking about Sky HD, as Sky SD you could just do Scart->Composite.

Early Sky HD boxes came with a component output but that was phased out on newer models, I beleive due to HDCP and the "HD Ready" standard.

You may also be able to do HDMI-> DVI and take the audio seperately - I'm not entirely sure.

Yep, will be SKY HD

monitor supports HDCP so hopefully will have no problem, what connections does this box support?

Video output: HDMI socket, 2 x SCART (Composite, RGB), S-Video, component HD Analogue (Y, Pr, Pb). Note that component video support on newer boxes is set to be dropped

so could i connect the box to my monitor with composite + optical? :D

we got a sky hd box recently (amstrad :( ) and it comes with a hdmi (I suggest you use hdmi to dvi adapter) which carries just stereo audio and a seperate optical out for the full surround sound goodness!

I see no reason why this shouldn't work

Just get a DVI to HDMI convertor/adapter, then it'll solve all your problems ; )

thanks for the idea of the DVI/HDMI converter, no need though as i found my LCD TV (in stock) before sky was installed woohoo :)

Nice nice nice! Problem solved, enjoy your service = )