Using the desktop replacement WUXGA screen for the TV

[Roy]

Hello group
I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch
laptop. How will I do this ?
I have never done any interconnection between the TV and my Laptop...
I just want to watch high definition shows using my better resolution
laptop screen instead of the old CRT TV screen which produces an
often grainy reception .
Or is this possible?
TIA

Roy

 

[J G Miller]

Hello group
I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop.
How will I do this ?

IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device.

If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device.

You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the
USB socket on your laptop PC.

Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device,
and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the
transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to
the sound device.

Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be
futile to suggest which USB device you should buy.

 

[John McGaw]

IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device.

If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device.

You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the
USB socket on your laptop PC.

Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device,
and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the
transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to
the sound device.

Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be
futile to suggest which USB device you should buy.

Or if the notebook is compatible and one dislikes dongles one might use an
ExpressCard or CardBus tuner (depending on the notebook's age). One of
these would cost a bit more but give a neater finished appearance. It might
even work better although I wouldn't bet on that.

 

[Roy]

IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device.

If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device.

You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the
USB socket on your laptop PC.

Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device,
and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the
transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to
the sound device.

Hope that helps.  Since you do not specify your world region, it would be
futile to suggest which USB device you should buy.

Hmm so its not that easy then just to connect the notebook to the old
CRT based TV.
BTW, I am currently staying in Philippines for a month and residing
in a place where the in house TV had very poor picture quality
..
I had asked some people here about USB tuners and they said that the
analog type of TV tuner does not give a better picture either compared
to the standard TV...
So I was thinking that maybe by using instead the notebook screen the
reception might be improved?
Any ideas?
Roy

 

[John McGaw]

Hmm so its not that easy then just to connect the notebook to the old
CRT based TV.
BTW, I am currently staying in Philippines for a month and residing
in a place where the in house TV had very poor picture quality
.
I had asked some people here about USB tuners and they said that the
analog type of TV tuner does not give a better picture either compared
to the standard TV...
So I was thinking that maybe by using instead the notebook screen the
reception might be improved?
Any ideas?
Roy

At present the Philippines uses the old US NTSC standard for analog
broadcasting and even with the best receiver and display the quality is
never going to be great. They are slated to go digital but that isn't for
quite a few more years. After the changeover they will be using the
European HD standard.

No matter what sort of display you have, the picture will never be better
than what the input signal is capable of. A super display will show up the
defects better I guess but that is rarely what anyone wants.

Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.

 

[Roy]

At present the Philippines uses the old US NTSC standard for analog
broadcasting and even with the best receiver and display the quality is
never going to be great. They are slated to go digital but that isn't for
quite a few more years. After the changeover they will be using the
European HD standard.

No matter what sort of display you have, the picture will never be better
than what the input signal is capable of. A super display will show up the
defects better I guess but that is rarely what anyone wants.

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Hmm... does it mean that the LCD screen does not have an improving
effect on the reception?
I have watched TV overseas and had noted that the flat screen LCD
gives better picture quality than the CRT.......

 

[J G Miller]

Hmm... does it mean that the LCD screen does not have an improving
effect on the reception?

The quality of reception depends on the available signal and the
quality of the antenna and download.

Analog signals are more prone to detoriation of picture quality
due to bad reception eg ghosting, snowy noisy pictures, than digital
which is either all or nothing with a very narrow in between state
of pixellation and picture freezing.

I have watched TV overseas and had noted that the flat screen LCD gives
better picture quality than the CRT.......

But it all depends on the picture source.

If for example you have a Blu-Ray player and connect it to a large
screen LCD TV via HDMI (a digital cable thereby enabling transfer of
the High Definition picture) it is going to look far better than if
it was connected to a CRT via a SCART or S-VHS vable (an analog
cable with maximum resolution of NTSC only).

Incidentally, if you show a poor quality digital source, eg
too low bit rate tv program on a large screen, the digital
artefacts are much more apparent than on a smaller screen --
eg the grass on the soccer pitch just looks like a smooth
green billiard table and there is no detail and fast movement
may appear as pixelated blocks.

So LCD screens do not magically make bad video sources look
better.

If you are in the Philippines were the current system is as far I am
aware a variation on NTSC, then your only option for viewing TV on
your laptop is an analog TV USB device.

And according to

<http://wapedia.mobi/en/Television_in_the_Philippines#3.>

when the Philippines does change over to digital TV, it will be
as per the decision of the NTC.

QUOTE
The NTC of the Philippines announced that the country will use
the Japanese ISDB
UNQUOTE