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Playing Your Computer On Your TV

jetnightshadejetnightshade Registered User new member
edited February 2007 in Games and Technology
What is everyone's opinion on the best method to connect your computer to your TV so that you can play downloaded videos from your computer on your TV, or play computer games on your TV?

Thanks,

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  • victor_c26victor_c26 Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    It all depends on what type of TV you have, SDTV or HDTV.

    If you have an SDTV, component with the screen set at 640*480, but I wouldn't recommend doing anything that requires text reading.

    If you have an HDTV, Component or VGA will give you excellent picture quality, but if you want to best possible picture, you can go HDMI/DVI.

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  • jetnightshadejetnightshade Registered User new member
    edited February 2007
    I'm sorry, but what do you mean by component?

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  • AccualtAccualt Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    It is a type of cable.
    What kind of TV do you have? I run a DVI to HDMI cable from my PC to my LCD TV and it works rather well. I use to run an S-Video to my 32" SDTV but you could hardly read anything because of the blur. Worked out fine for watching videos, though, since most of them are of a low enough resolution that the the SDblur hardly matters.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The first question we should have asked is: What inputs do you have on the back of your TV?

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Sorry to thread hi-jack but my laptop has s-vid output, but my telly doesn't, it only has composite and RGB Scart. I assume that if I were to get a S-vid to Scart adaptor it would just downconvert it to composite, so is there any way to get an RGB signal to a TV? I'm thinking there isn't.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    cherv1 wrote:
    Sorry to thread hi-jack but my laptop has s-vid output, but my telly doesn't, it only has composite and RGB Scart. I assume that if I were to get a S-vid to Scart adaptor it would just downconvert it to composite, so is there any way to get an RGB signal to a TV? I'm thinking there isn't.

    Can't SCART transmit a YC video signal, like that of S-Video? I mean, it wouldn't be as good as RGB, but it would be better than composite.

    I'm not entirely sure about it, though. Here in the US we've never even seen RGB SCART.

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  • imbalancedimbalanced Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I got you covered: buy a Wii, install Opera. There you go.

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The Warlock wrote:
    cherv1 wrote:
    Sorry to thread hi-jack but my laptop has s-vid output, but my telly doesn't, it only has composite and RGB Scart. I assume that if I were to get a S-vid to Scart adaptor it would just downconvert it to composite, so is there any way to get an RGB signal to a TV? I'm thinking there isn't.

    Can't SCART transmit a YC video signal, like that of S-Video? I mean, it wouldn't be as good as RGB, but it would be better than composite.

    Well S-vid doesn't really exist in Europe, so most Scarts support RGB, and it's not possible for a single Scart input to support both RGB and S-vid. Sometimes TVs have two separate Scarts, but my one doesn't.

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  • MrDeadManMrDeadMan Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    cherv1 wrote:
    The Warlock wrote:
    cherv1 wrote:
    Sorry to thread hi-jack but my laptop has s-vid output, but my telly doesn't, it only has composite and RGB Scart. I assume that if I were to get a S-vid to Scart adaptor it would just downconvert it to composite, so is there any way to get an RGB signal to a TV? I'm thinking there isn't.

    Can't SCART transmit a YC video signal, like that of S-Video? I mean, it wouldn't be as good as RGB, but it would be better than composite.

    Well S-vid doesn't really exist in Europe, so most Scarts support RGB, and it's not possible for a single Scart input to support both RGB and S-vid. Sometimes TVs have two separate Scarts, but my one doesn't.

    You could just get a simple cable to convert from S-Vid to Composite and be done with it, but you've pretty much established that the result would look too assy for your taste.

    You could take advantage of the VGA output on the laptop it were a NTSC TV, but not really with PAL. There are several cables/converters to go from SCART to VGA, but the only thing I can find for VGA to SCART is the Nexus Project. But there's all sorts of scary bullet points on that site such as:
      - You need to be able to tell your graphics card to use your own resolutions and timings - if you're running Windows you're probably stuffed. - Your graphics card needs to support interlacing - Your graphics card must be able to support a very low dot-clock frequency - You must tell your graphics card to use negative vsync and hsync polarities.
    I think the simple answer here is you're screwed unless you use composite or get an HDTV.

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