Recent content by teambarnes

OK, so in a nutshell: about a year ago, I bought an 18x dvd burner w/ lighscribe from Newegg, it was one of those $25 dollar ones, cant remember the brand, wait a sec: Samsung 18x So anyway, I took out the CDRW put that in, installed the software, did the lightscribe upgrade, and all...

Some people here are too hard on integrated - before I got my ATI 3850 installed I played Rome Total War, Rise of Legends, CIV IV, and the like, nothing cutting edge mind you, but games newer than 18 months, and this was with a 22" monitor at 1680 x 1050 and medium (for the most part) settings...

Wow thanx Tenet, you really did your (my) research for me lol. Seriously thanx, that lays out exactly why it didnt work. Hmm, maybe if I used the Viewsonic for the main PC and my Acer 22 for the dvr box... Well, for now I will use the small TV I bought, or I will take it back and get the...

well out of frustration i went and bought a 15" tv lol. I dont know what to think. I have a Scientific American 8300 HDC cable box (HD DVR); 20" Viewsonic VX2035WM. I will take this 15" TV back in a New York minute if some one can help me figure out how to get a signal. I had the tv hooked...

ok so I have a cable box, An HDMI-DVI cable, and I set the output to 720p, but the monitor is picking up no signal. nada, Im stumped. Called TW and am waiting for a specialist to get back to me, but i dont know where to turn from here...

Ok, I was gonna post an update this morning in case any one else wanted to chime in with their advice, but here's how it stands so far: TW store was closed on Sunday lol, and I didnt want to unplug my main living room entertainment cetner, but I have discovered the following: TW Box has HDMI...

OK, I confirmed that the back of the monitor has only VGA and DVI ports (also audio in? why not out?) My TW box has the normal TV stuff, HDMI and 'S' video as an option. So are there any cables that go say from HDMI to DVI? And if so, what will I do about sound? I think my monitor actually...

Thanks, I like that converter box, I have heard of them before for gaming systems, never made the connection! I will look around and hopefully find a cheaper price!

Are there DVI to 'S' converters? Or Or some other kind of cable converter that could work? What about sound? I guess a speaker system could hook up to the cable box. The only outputs I know the box has are the red/white/yellow and the one thats similar, HD? That is like green/red/blue or...

Hmm, the only inputs on it are the one that monitors have always had and then the one with two banks of inputs and a line, i think that is DVI? Havent crawled back to see what the box has. Maybe I should look into this, I thoughtt it was common knowledge that it couldnt be done without a tuner...

My wife was so excited to get this for me for X-mas, and I had to choke down a few hours of gameplay before I could quietly set it aside. SOmething about the whole BP issue soured me on the whole thing from before it was even released, and the reviews pretty much raked it over the coals. I...

Anarchy Online? lol, prolly not.

I bought this game on clearance at Target last week and set it aside, since I just re-started my LOTRO subsription for a month or two, but I too am excited about this! I am a big WW2 fan, but not an RTS fan so I initially scorned the idea, then I read some reviews and saw some screenies and...

I have little money and an extra 20" widescreen Viewsonic and the wifey wants TV in the bedroom so WHY cant I just get a second box from cable and hook it into the monitor? What is preventing this from a technological viewpoint? I dont need a tuner if the cable box is the tuner right? I...

I bought a clearance Acer model at Circuit City for $359 and for the first month used the onboard ATI 1250 IGP, and I played modern games at medium settings. (I was quite impressed actually!) But not nearly as impressed after I dropped the 150 on a ATI 3850!