urgent help with TV as monitor

Heres the sitch, my mom is handicapped and her vision has taken a turn for the worse.

She's addicted to internet dominoes and euchre, but can no longer see the cards and dots on her 19" monitor.

My father and I are getting her a 24" TV to use as a monitor (i'm hoping this is a good idea)

The current video card is an older geforce2 (32mb)
It has a PS/2 looking connector (with more pins, and a little square in the middle), but there's no yellow RCA type jack

Will this card hook up to a TV?

If not, please reccomend me a card at newegg that will work well for this task.
My budget is <50 (preferably less than 40)

 

[Ioo]

TV viewing sucks compared to computer monitors. And if she sits close to it (like as close as you normally sit to a computer monitor) everything will be very blurry. She would have to sit further away, which would defeat the purpose of what your trying to do.

My reccomendation is to get a bigger computer monitor, set the resolution to 800x600 or 640x480, as low as the monitor lets you.

 

[Squally Leonharty]

The connector you're talking about is most likely the TV-out connector in s-video format. In other words, get a s-video capable TV and you'll be able to use your TV as your monitor after some tweaking (but seeing that the card is rather old, the quality may not be so good; chances are that it won't be of much use to your mother).

Do some research first. For example, check all your TV's for an s-video connector (most relatively new TV's have it in the front panel) and use it with an s-video cable. Then see what's the quality is like and judge whether it's useable for your mother not. If you have no such TV, ask a friend for his/her help (like, bring your PC to his/her place and hook the GF2 card up to his/her TV with s-video).

Hope that helps.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the quality of TV-out might not be worth investing in a new TV. Simply get a bigger monitor and set it to a lower resolution, like Ioo said. But hey, you can always experiment this with some TV's first.

 

my moms a very, VERY basic user
(email, euchre, dominos, yahoo IM....thats all)

will the quality be workable?

her resolution is like 640 x 480 i think

 

[Confused]

No, it will look MUCH worse than a 19" CRT at 640x480. Do not waste your money.

 

[Rage187]

I agree, tv-out just looks like blurry ass.

 

appreciate it guys

any replacement ideas?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: troytime
appreciate it guys

any replacement ideas?

21-22" CRT or LCD monitor? CRT would be better if you're going to run it at 640x480, as an LCD would get blurrier due to scaling.

There's also screen magnification software built into Windows (at least I think there is; check in the accessibility options). Did you try that?

Edit:

MS KB article on this