Monitor or TV

[githanis]

I don't have a lot of knowledge on ths stuf so I was looking for some helpful advice. I have a 19" regular monitor I can use, or I can use my sony trinitron 32" TV. I'm looking at getting the Radeon 9800 256mb/256bit video card. I thinking the pro's of using my TV is that I will have my computer in my living room and can play on the net and play games (like EQ2) on my TV while sitting on the couch. What I need to know are the con's.

 

[slash196]

Don't TVs need special drivers or codecs or something to read off a computer?

 

[powerMarkymark]

Use both.

Monitor for computer stuff like apps and internet, text does not display well on tv.

Then connect the tv out from your card to your tv for movies and gaming.

Have fun

Marc

 

[githanis]

How do you hook up both? Is it one at a time and or can I keep both hooked up at the same time and just keep the monitor off when I don't want to use it. As far as using my TV...do games look just as good on them, or better on a monitor? Is it where I just have to switch my TV to channel 3 or tv input or something like like to view the computer?

 

[gwag]

imho games suck on tv quality wise.

 

[mdahc]

You should be able to have both hooked up at once. I have a Radeon 9700 Pro hooked up to my my 21" CRT monitor and my 30" widescreen CRT HDTV via ATI's HDTV component video adapter. My system is just fine with both hooked up, and I can switch between them easily via the Display settings. However, if you don't have an HDTV (i.e. a regular SDTV), then you'll probably be using S-Video or composite interfaces. Thus, I can't tesitfy to whether or not it will work in those cases (although I can't imagine why they wouldn't given that component video output is much more problematic).

 

[ScrewFace]

You don't want to game on a TV. It looks like sh*t! That's what monitors are for. That's why we don't have consoles because the image quality being stuck at 640x480 on a TV is unacceptable to a serious PC gamer.