PC used as TV

[soldano]

I purchased a 22 LCD Wide Screen monitor, and a Advantek Video Capture Card, now I can watch TV from my PC, but its image quality is inferior than my standard 21 CRT TV set, it seems less sharper.-
Is it normal ?
I am very dissapointed, as I thought that such a monitor should give a high quality TV image.-
My video card is a GForce 6600 GT.-

 

[alizee]

Standard definition looks bad on LCDs and Plasmas. It has to do with the stretching of the image to fit the display. Your running a 640x480 signal to a 1680x1050 display, that's pretty much the jist of it. It happens even when you run to a regular TV that's plasma or LCD. CRTs look better, and you can get an HD CRT with DVIor HDMI inputs. That's going to get you the best picture quality, HD or SD.

 

[Evander]

Try DSCALER:
http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
It has the best image quality of any that I've used. But it's not compatible with all capture cards, and development is extremely slow.

I don't know your capture card, but if it's not HD, no should probably get one that is. If the card has an "ATSC" tuner you can watch for free over-the-air broadcasts. "QAM" tuners are for digital cable and these channels cost money to view

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Evander
Try DSCALER:
http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
It has the best image quality of any that I've used. But it's not compatible with all capture cards, and development is extremely slow.

I don't know your capture card, but if it's not HD, no should probably get one that is. If the card has an "ATSC" tuner you can watch for free over-the-air broadcasts. "QAM" tuners are for digital cable and these channels cost money to view

Unencrypted QAM (ClearQAM) is free. That's what I do - spend $18/mo for analog no-box cable, then use the QAM tuner to pull in 20 or so cable high-def and digital channels. Works great with HD Homerun and my Sharp 32" HDTV.