Hooked desktop up to my Sony Grand Wega, and the picture was horrible!

[littlewing]

I hooked my PC which has an MSI 6800 128mb to my Sony 55XS955 grand wega LCD Proj. TV. The card came with a adapter and an s-video cable that allowed me to hook it up to the s-video input on my TV. The result was horrible. 12 font was barely readable. I couldn't even go above 1028x780 resolution even though my TV supports much much higher than that.

What's up?

 

[mwmorph]

svideo maxes out at 800x600 so if you go above that, you are jsut running interpolated.

 

[littlewing]

oh, thanks. what does component max out at?

 

[mwmorph]

1920x1080 @60hz

 

[littlewing]

So you think a component input would clear up my picture? I noticed that my cousin's Sammy DLP had a regular monitor input on the tv, my sony doesn't have that. With the regular monitor input, the picture quality was perfect.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Kind of depends on the TV.

Does it have a DVI or HDMI input too?

You might want to look up the specific model over at AVSforum and see if anybody has tried different connections on it.

 

[n7]

If all you have is S-Video...then your screwed, for lack of a better way to say it

 

[littlewing]

the TV only has two HDMI inputs. No DVI.

 

[CZroe]

They make cables for that. HDMI carries DVI signaling.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: CZroe
They make cables for that. HDMI carries DVI signaling.

Yes they do

http://www.cablesforless.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2396

+ HDMI cable length of your choice

or

http://www.cablesforless.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=408

 

[Dug]

Before doing that, you may want to venture over to AVSforum and look at the htpc section.
Sony's are hard to sync with the exact resolution of 1366x788.
Anything but that resolution is going to look bad.

 

[valkator]

Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

 

[QuantumPion]

I tried hooking up my 50" plasma to my computer via dvi cable. It didn't look very good either, although the resolution didn't match just right. The tv is supposed to be 1366x768 but the video card would only set it to 1360x760 or something like that, near but not exact. The picture looked okay, fine for movies, but small text was unreadable and the contrast wasn't that good so no good for games.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: valkator
Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

It is Wega, but pronouced Vega... Yeah, I know, stupid Sony.

 

[doanster]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: valkator
Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

It is Wega, but pronouced Vega... Yeah, I know, stupid Sony.

How the heck does that work???

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: QuantumPion
I tried hooking up my 50" plasma to my computer via dvi cable. It didn't look very good either, although the resolution didn't match just right. The tv is supposed to be 1366x768 but the video card would only set it to 1360x760 or something like that, near but not exact. The picture looked okay, fine for movies, but small text was unreadable and the contrast wasn't that good so no good for games.

Depends on your setup. I have a Dell 30" LCD-TV that works fine, but then again, it was built with dual functionality (TV & Monitor). My fathers 42" Plasma display comes today, going to help him hook it up. I seen the Plasma hooked up to the PC and it looked beautiful. But that is what is nice about the Dell's... They have a downside though, they are not the best in terms of TV watching and so on... Ahhhh... The trade-offs of a purchase.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: valkator
Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

It is Wega, but pronouced Vega... Yeah, I know, stupid Sony.

Stupid Latin.

 

[harmonjoe255]

Maybe it's the cable your using. What kind of component video cable are you using?

I would recommend getting a Avic Cable

 

[valkator]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: valkator
Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

It is Wega, but pronouced Vega... Yeah, I know, stupid Sony.

Stupid Latin.

:roll: tell me about it LOL

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: valkator

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: valkator
Or u can just go to your local radio shack or something and get the HDMI to DVI adapter cable which is the cable with a DVI end and an HDMI end on the other side.

Hmm i thought it was suppose to be spelled VEGA and not WEGA but their logo looks like WEGA or somethin

It is Wega, but pronouced Vega... Yeah, I know, stupid Sony.

Stupid Latin.

:roll: tell me about it LOL

Too bad I signed up for Latin this year

You should use at least a component cable. Buy one of the cables that jello listed, that will help alot. I tried a DVI cable to hook up to my samsung 26" Hi-def TV (crt), but it was too flickery to read text at 1920x1080 (1080I). It looked good with movies and games though

EDIT: doesn't s-video max out at 1024x768?

 

[CZroe]

It would still be an analog 1024x768 with tons of "bleeding" and impossible to read text.

 

[w00t]

keyboard s-video run it analog and the native res.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: w00t
keyboard s-video run it analog and the native res.

I'm so

 

[ND40oz]

You're going to have problems anytime you take a tv with a native 1366x788 resolution and try to feed it analogue signal that at best supports 800x600. Buy an HDMI to DVI adaptor and run that from your pc to the TV. I have the 60 inch XS and when it's run at native resolution, text is readable from 6 to 10 feet. You'll have a hard time running it at native without powerstrip but with the latest drivers from nVidia or ATI you should have no problem running at 1280 by 720 or something a little closer to native.