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January 31st, 2003, 02:26 PM
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Ok, I have a question...
I wanted to use my Television as a computer monitor for gaming, and watching DVD's. I was wondering if there are any inexpensive hardware that would plug into my video card on one side and plug into my tv's audio/video input jacks on the other. Something like an adapter of some sort...
If you have any questions... please reply.
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January 31st, 2003, 02:39 PM
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what type of video card you have? some video cards have the ability to use the tv as a monitor. i believe its s-video out
also one thing tv as monitors is not a good idea. i believe the max resolution you can have is 800 X 600 or something about that, horrible for gaming and dvd watch IMHO
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January 31st, 2003, 02:45 PM
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It's kindof funny, but I just answered a similar question if your video card doesn't already have TV-Out: http://www.techimo.com/forum/t50834.html
I'll somewhat echo GZ's statements, but only if your games require any amount of reading...
But playing games on a 52" can be a blast! And that's much better for watching DVDs on than a 19" monitor...  | |
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January 31st, 2003, 03:36 PM
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It's kindof funny, but I just answered a similar question if your video card doesn't already have TV-Out:
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But playing games on a 52" can be a blast!
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In my livingroom, I have a 45" Trinitron Sony TV, I was going to try it on that TV but I wanted to use it mainly for my bedroom TV.
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some video cards have the ability to use the tv as a monitor. i believe its s-video out
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Well I know that but I overlooked asking if there was another way instead of buying another video card.
I have a GeForce2 MX400 Video Card... | |
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January 31st, 2003, 03:54 PM
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tried to tv as monitor before very poor resolutions unless you has something like a plasma tv | |
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January 31st, 2003, 04:02 PM
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February 2nd, 2003, 09:54 AM
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I can appreciate you wanting a hardware adapter for gaming/dvd's etc, I have the same video card as yourself with output to a 28" toshiba tv (and a 14" monitor!!!).The only way I can run games/dvd's reliably is by changing the tv to be the active monitor and doing everything from there,which is a bit of a faf... Sometimes games will play straight to the tv,without me doing any changeover at all,but not every time. I wonder if there is a trick such as a hotkey or something that would work to make this easier. I do like the look of the hardware at the link above,but I just don't have the cash for that at the mo'.Good luck sorting it out .
sorry instead of active monitor read PRIMARY monitor
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February 2nd, 2003, 12:44 PM
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there are tv-out cards in every price range with s-video out,
for ex voodoo3 3000, and even with rca-output jack,
for ex., rage 128,, radeon 7000, etc. max resolution of tvs are
vga = 640 x 480, with a refresh rate of 60 hz.
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