Using a TV for a Computer monitor

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This may not be the proper place to ask, but maybe someone will help.
How can I use my TV for a computer monitor. Someone has told me this
can be done. How does the PC signal get to the TV>

Vince
 
El Cugino said:
This may not be the proper place to ask, but maybe someone will help.
How can I use my TV for a computer monitor. Someone has told me this
can be done. How does the PC signal get to the TV>
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Does your video card have a TV Out or Video Out jack?
 
You need to get a video card that supports one or more of your TV inputs.
Examples: VGA (RCA), SVGA, or cable RF.
Such a video card will do the video conversion, then output to the port used
to supply to the TV.
Look for NTSC as well, not PAL.
 
The Sales person I bought it from at Best Buy said the S-Video and
Composite Video adapter was what I needed and it was on the ATI TV
Wonder Pro card. It wasn't for me. I purchased it for my son who
is bringing it back to me tomorrow. He says he can view TV on the
computer, but can't get it to view on the Television. I'll know
more about it when he returns it tomorrow.

Thanx
 
Hi,

If set up correctly, the option to set up the TV as a secondary monitor will
be in the advanced settings of the display applet in the control panel.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
This card (ATI AIW) has a built-in television signal tuner/decoder. It is
not primarily designed for PC display to TV. Its primary intent was to tune
and decode TV signals for PC monitor display. The card can be forced to act
the purpose you're seeking. Its an expensive way to get what you're looking
for.

The sales quack is a little correct, ATI does make a card for the purpose
you want PC display to TV. A more reasonably priced card by ATI for that
purpose is the 9200 or even less expensive 9200SE card. Only TV out is
SVideo on the card. The 9200SE also has DVI out and standard monitor VGA
out ports.

There are other display adapter manufacturers as well that may make similar
product. I had a ATI AIW at one time. Now have the 9200SE. I would
recommend the 9200SE as its a good all around performer for the buck. See
the ati.com website, its in the home product line.

If you choose to buy, buy it elsewhere, not the ati site.
 
Lot of those ATI cards. You never said which one. Lack of critical details
not unusual in this newsgroup.
 
This may not be the proper place to ask, but maybe someone will help.
How can I use my TV for a computer monitor. Someone has told me this
can be done. How does the PC signal get to the TV>

Vince
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You have already gotten some responses about how to do this. So not
going to go into that.

You need to be aware that in most cases a TV makes an extremely poor
monitor for a computer. The picture will be poor, fuzzy, grainy, just
absolutely terrible in most cases. The reason being is that the
resolution that your video card uses will have to be downgraded a lot
to be compatible with the TV.

Now there is some hope though. A lot of the newer HDTV monitors now
have DVI inputs on them which in some cases can be hooked up to a
computer and used as a computer monitor. The reason these work well
is because the HDTV has much higher pixel resolution than a standard
TV. But it will depend on the TV itself. Some can be used as
monitors thru the DVI input, others can not. The ones that cannot use
the DVI input only for getting a video signal from a cable box, DVD
player etc. It should tell you in the manual for the HDTV if it will
work with a computer or not.
 
Rctfreak said:
You need to be aware that in most cases a TV makes an extremely poor
monitor for a computer. The picture will be poor, fuzzy, grainy, just
absolutely terrible in most cases. The reason being is that the
resolution that your video card uses will have to be downgraded a lot
to be compatible with the TV.

Now there is some hope though. A lot of the newer HDTV monitors now
have DVI inputs on them which in some cases can be hooked up to a
computer and used as a computer monitor. The reason these work well
is because the HDTV has much higher pixel resolution than a standard
TV.
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I know nedxt to nothing about HDTV, and I'm curious about this. If one had
an HDTV set that could be used as a monitor, what's the highest resolution
it would support?
 
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