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Alastair Chamerberlin
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Join date: 22 May 2006
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03-28-2007 07:58
I read something recently about a new device ( cannot recall the name just now) that enables one to turn the TV into the monitor of your PC. Any ideas on the best way to do this? There was a thread recently in resident answers where someone wrote that they are playing SL on a 57 inch monitor. wow. Would love to see that. Must be like a window into the other world.
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Thili Playfair
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03-28-2007 08:51
Pretty much all vid cards out now have some way to connect to ordinary tv, composite, svideo, vga/dvi, or last one hdmi, depends on what tv you have , tho note resoultion from pc > tv is very crud compared to a good crt/lcd as they have way higher resolution. You can use a vga box from your pc then to tv, but its not really needed anymore, newer tv's already have vga connection or other ways to do it. TV resolution
(excluding UHDTV duh.. it just crushes HDTV with 7,680 by 4320 resolution)
(that and its not out , price will be insane  )
Remember most tv's have 50-60hz
setting it higher is not recommended, default 60hz
Crt/Lcd monitors
640x480 to 2560 x 1600 (30"
How? One way to connect you computer to the TV (when using a TV as your display) is to get a video card with TV-out. There are cards with composite (yellow RCA), S-video, and component (red, green and blue RCA) outputs for standard and component high definition TV's. If your TV has a digital HD input (DVI or HDMI), you can connect a DVI video card directly to the digital input. You can also get a PC to TV converter. These are perfect when you don't want to upgrade your video card (especially with laptops, small multimedia PC's or integrated graphics). The PC to TV converter connects the VGA out on your computer to composite, S-video, component or even high definition component. You can also use a wireless PC to TV converter if your computer is in another room or far from your TV. Remember that running the video out of your computer will only send the video signal and not audio. If you're playing anything with audio, you would still have to use your computer's speakers if you don't send the audio to the TV along with the video. Fortunately, it's not hard to get the audio to your TV. Computer audio is usually outputted to a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack common on headphones and computer speakers. You can simply run a 1/8" (3.5mm) to the RCA audio on your TV (a common audio interface on TV’s). If you don’t have a spare headphone or speaker jack on the computer, or if you want a high quality surround sound, you can add a sound card to your computer. |
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Alastair Chamerberlin
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Join date: 22 May 2006
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thanks.
03-28-2007 09:06
lots of good info there.
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Osgeld Barmy
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03-28-2007 22:27
due to signal conversion most of the time the video image will be distorted, on a normal low def tv you can play some mindless games and watch video without making your eyes cross, with hdtv you will still have to fiddle with fonts to make things readable
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