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“It's 'possible', but it isn't likely to be be cheaper, quite the opposite - and all such attempts in the past have failed miserably.”
The setup being described here is exactly what I use - It saved me lots of money and definitely did not 'fail miserably'. What I have is an Xbox 360 with the VGA output cable and a freeview PVR box using a standard scart output.
The only thing I needed to buy to make this work was a VGA converter box, which I got for £24.99 on ebay including postage and packing
Here is the link for what I brought.
I have the PVR scart output plugged into this and the VGA output from my xbox, and then a single VGA cable going from the converter box to my 27" monitor and an 3.5 audio cable going from the converter box to a set of speakers (you could use the speakers built into the monitor, but the sound is pretty tinny. This setup gives me high quality video from the PVR (make sure to get a converter box like mine that supports a widescreen resolution if you plan to get a widescreen monitor or the picture will look stretched) and an equally high quality picture from my xbox.