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Question about TV-out.

lower overall resolution esp as far as words and details. for movie playback, it's pretty decent. your monitor has a lower quality resolution that your monitor.
 
Generally s-video TV-out makes text pretty blurry, even at the lowest resolutions. While still readable, it's nowhere near as sharp as a monitor, even at 640x480. However it's ok for gaming or viewing movies, just don't expect to be able to do some major web surfing on your TV w/o getting a headache.
 
not really, the s-video will have better video quality than the rca out and even with s-video you won't be able to really do much except for watch movies and games or presentations
 
blurry text....good for movies...but thats about it....it's the tv that the bottleneck...not the video card...
 
what if the tv is a flat picture tube television? will the computer look good on it and will it work as well as a monitor would?
 
You need a HDTV with a DVI input.

I currently have a 36" HDTV that has a 15-pin analog monitor hookup and I can surf the web and read text fairly easily. (Although, the max resolution and refresh is 800x600 @ 60 Hz, which is as high as a TV can go, anyway). I really like it. I'm sure a HDTV with a DVI input would be even better.
 
Tv-out is not really for reading text, but instead mainly for viewing video. Even though the TV has lower resolution, watching Divx/dvd/vcd on your TV is still a blast. In-fact when you watch Divx/svcd/vcd/dvd by tv-out it WILL look better on you TV than your monitor, in most cases the lines with be sharper.

 
IMHO, the cheapest stand-alone DVD player will always look better on a TV than playing a DVD on your computer and viewing it on a TV using the computers TV-OUT.
 
Originally posted by: Boobers
You need a HDTV with a DVI input.

I currently have a 36" HDTV that has a 15-pin analog monitor hookup and I can surf the web and read text fairly easily. (Although, the max resolution and refresh is 800x600 @ 60 Hz, which is as high as a TV can go, anyway). I really like it. I'm sure a HDTV with a DVI input would be even better.
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A DVI input is not really necessary. My father-in-law has a LG 60" LCD Projection HDTV (I don't think this model available in the U.S. It's thicker than a PDP TV but about 1/3 of a conventional projection TV) with a regular 15-pin monitor input. I hooked up my laptop to it with a regualr monitor cable and it goes as high as 1600x1200 if I remember correctly (it might even go higher). It was as good as looking at a regular LCD monitor (I guess it had to be since it was just a giant LCD with TV functions).
 
If you are using a 15-pin connection, you are using an analog connection which relys on the RAMDAC on your video card to produce an analog signal. Most late-model HDTV's have DVI ports, which is a direct digital hook-up and will produce much better results than an analog 15-pin hook-up. I don't think I've seen any HDTV's with the 15-pin connector for about two years now.
 
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