My TV As My Monitor??

[MielkeHBP]

Is it possible, im guessing it is, but I cant seem to find the right card. I searched neweggs tv tuner cards and stuff and couldnt find anything with like RCA outs or coaxil outs or anything, just inputs

 

[JBT]

What kind of TV do you have? if its an HDTV sure thats easy. Pretty much any newer card will be able to output HDTV.
If you have a regular SD TV it will just be an ugly 640x480 nightmare.

 

[Peter]

TV cards do TV signal INPUT and are used to watch TV on the computer monitor - which is the exact opposite of what you're trying to do there.

TV compatible OUTPUT is something you'll commonly find on the GRAPHICS card - and if your graphics card is halfway current, then you'll find that you already got that right there.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Peter
TV cards do TV signal INPUT and are used to watch TV on the computer monitor - which is the exact opposite of what you're trying to do there.

TV compatible OUTPUT is something you'll commonly find on the GRAPHICS card - and if your graphics card is halfway current, then you'll find that you already got that right there.

Most cards have S-Video out though, which isn't goint to be much use, unless your TV has either VGA or DVI inputs.
I think VIVO (video in, video out) cards often have component and other outputs though.

 

[Maxspeed996]

Originally posted by: JBT
What kind of TV do you have? if its an HDTV sure thats easy. Pretty much any newer card will be able to output HDTV.
If you have a regular SD TV it will just be an ugly 640x480 nightmare.

Exactly right.

 

[Peter]

Originally posted by: LonyoMost cards have S-Video out though, which isn't goint to be much use, unless your TV has either VGA or DVI inputs.

SVideo output is exactly what you DO use when your TV does NOT have VGA or DVI inputs.

SVideo and, through a very simple adapter that comes with most VGA cards, Composite Video are THE legacy video signal formats. This is what your VCR from 1983 emits, this is what your 8-bit home computer used, and this is what your equally old TV set will VERY possibly have an input for.

 

[MielkeHBP]

thanks!

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: MielkeHBP
thanks!

So is it an HDTV or regular old SD?

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: JBT
What kind of TV do you have? if its an HDTV sure thats easy. Pretty much any newer card will be able to output HDTV.
If you have a regular SD TV it will just be an ugly 640x480 nightmare.

You can set it to a higher resolution, I dont know what youre reffering to here.

Set the resolution to 1024x768, make all the fonts big enough to see and there you go. Its going to be very fuzzy but at least it wont be 640x480.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: aeternitas

Originally posted by: JBT
What kind of TV do you have? if its an HDTV sure thats easy. Pretty much any newer card will be able to output HDTV.
If you have a regular SD TV it will just be an ugly 640x480 nightmare.

You can set it to a higher resolution, I dont know what youre reffering to here.

Set the resolution to 1024x768, make all the fonts big enough to see and there you go. Its going to be very fuzzy but at least it wont be 640x480.

<Lex Luthor> WRONG!

It'll take that 1024x768 signal, but it will just downsample it, since an SDTV can only display 480 lines.

- M4H

 

[Peter]

Exactly. Your graphics engine may be producing a higher resolution, but for output over SVideo or Composite, the output pipe will scale it back down to 480 lines - and that'll look worse than rendering in the natively correct resolution of 640x480 to begin with. It is only useful if you have to run applications that don't fit onto 640x480.

PAL users best use 800x600 because there, the native video format is 576 lines.

 

[SonicIce]

those crazy europeans

 

[Peter]

... also happen to have the much better color encoding in PAL. The Phase Alternating Lines encoding is much less susceptible to signal noise, totally unlike the US system which produces Never The Same Color as broadcast 😀

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: Peter
... also happen to have the much better color encoding in PAL. The Phase Alternating Lines encoding is much less susceptible to signal noise, totally unlike the US system which produces Never The Same Color as broadcast 😀

orly? hehe

 

[Cheex]

In my opinion...TV's are for size not clarity. Television sets don't give the quality you get from computer monitors.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aeternitas

Originally posted by: JBT
What kind of TV do you have? if its an HDTV sure thats easy. Pretty much any newer card will be able to output HDTV.
If you have a regular SD TV it will just be an ugly 640x480 nightmare.

You can set it to a higher resolution, I dont know what youre reffering to here.

Set the resolution to 1024x768, make all the fonts big enough to see and there you go. Its going to be very fuzzy but at least it wont be 640x480.

<Lex Luthor> WRONG!

It'll take that 1024x768 signal, but it will just downsample it, since an SDTV can only display 480 lines.

- M4H

Wrong my ass? Where did I say it wouldent downsample it? 640x480 < 1024x768 even when downsampled on a TV screen. Dont believe me? I dont care. I have had a friends PC hooked upto the TV for ages, and the higher resolution signal resample will ALWAYS beat the lower resolution resample. One of the few issues is resolved though upping the font size.

Higher resolution equales a higher quality resample.

Learn something.