HDTV as computer monitor: feasiblity?

On 27 Aug 2004 21:04:05 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote:

A big CRT and some type of tuner card is what I'm thinking now (since I can get
TV tuner card for dirt cheap right now and have my FIC VA503+ all ready to go).

Yea, but with an internal TV tuner card you have to have your computer
on to watch TV. With the Viewsonic system it is all passthrough so you
don't need to have the computer on to watch TV.

maggot wrote:

On 27 Aug 2004 21:04:05 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote:

A big CRT and some type of tuner card is what I'm thinking now (since I
can get TV tuner card for dirt cheap right now and have my FIC VA503+ all
ready to go).

Yea, but with an internal TV tuner card you have to have your computer
on to watch TV. With the Viewsonic system it is all passthrough so you
don't need to have the computer on to watch TV.

And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't recieve
HDTV.

I have never understood why some people consider having their computer
turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off.

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First of One wrote:

Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I
remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p
(progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only has
the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution.

I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is
1920x1080.

Projecting this onto a 36"
display could look ugly when you need to read text.

Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen.


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Moreover, the HDTV spec also allows for 1080 p (progressive scan) to be implemented
whenever feasable. Now that will be a TV set!
--
Todd

A few weeks back I tried my x800 platinum on my sony 51 rear
projection HDTV. The card comes with an HDTV adapter.It did work - but
not very well as the scaling was off. I am hoping the new Catalyst
drivers that came outlast week will fix this. I hope to try it out
again tommorrow

Joe



On 27 Aug 2004 00:30:35 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote:

Does anyone out there know the feasability of using an HDTV as a computer
monitor? It seems like most vid-cards have DVI connectors (for flat-panel
displays). Aren't DVI connectors also used as inputs for HDTV's? It also seems
like most video card drivers support widescreen formats as well. How much would
a 24" to 25" HDTV with DVI inputs cost these days?

I'd imagine HDTV's can't handle text modes right? So and HDTV wouldn't be of
much use when booting a PC (viz. since you couldn't see anything until you get
into the GUI).

What kind of refresh rates can HDTV's handle? What kind of resolutions? Has
anyone else tried this? Any FAQ's out there?
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I
remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p
(progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only has
the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution.

I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is
1920x1080.

Yes, but that's 1920x1080 interlaced. If you feed a progressive-scan signal
to it, will it "downsample" and output an interlaced picture?

Though in the case of LCD TVs, I guess refresh rate is a bit of a moot
point.

Projecting this onto a 36"
display could look ugly when you need to read text.

Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen.

Any idea what the dot pitch is for your 8 foot screen (or is this a
projector)?

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First of One wrote:

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I
remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p
(progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only
has the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution.

I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is
1920x1080.

Yes, but that's 1920x1080 interlaced. If you feed a progressive-scan
signal to it, will it "downsample" and output an interlaced picture?

There's no "sampling" involved, it just takes two passes to display the
image.

Though in the case of LCD TVs, I guess refresh rate is a bit of a moot
point.

Projecting this onto a 36"
display could look ugly when you need to read text.

Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen.

Any idea what the dot pitch is for your 8 foot screen (or is this a
projector)?

What's 8 divided by the square root of the sum of the squares of 1280 and
720? About .005 inch or .13mm. But it doesn't have a "dot pitch" per se,
which applies only to CRTs, it's an LCD-based display so it has a 1:1
correspondence between physical and logical pixels unless I turn on
scaling.

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It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

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In article , Willie Winger wrote:
On 27 Aug 2004 18:14:36 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote:

This is all beginning to sound too complicated. I remember the nightmare I
went
thru a couple of years ago trying to get a 21" fixed frequency monitor to work
w/my 9500 Pro -- I don't want to go thru that again.

Just for the record are HDTV's fixed frequency devices? Do they support
standard PC resolutions? Do HDTV's support 60Hz refresh rates?

I live in an efficiency aparment (translation: small) and I need a new TV so I
was thinking why not combine the TV w/a big monitor and get an HDTV of some
type.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

Why not get a nice large computer monitor and use one of these. I have
one.

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/tv...sors/vb50hrtv/

Yup, and they are excellent for feeding your PS2 or XBOX game systems thru
to your 21" monitor!!!!!

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:21:40 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't recieve
HDTV.

You watch more than one channel at a time? And why can't it recieve
HDTV? It does 16:9 ratio and 4:3.

I have never understood why some people consider having their computer
turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off.

Noise.

maggot wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:21:40 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't
recieve HDTV.

You watch more than one channel at a time? And why can't it recieve
HDTV? It does 16:9 ratio and 4:3.

I have never understood why some people consider having their computer
turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off.

Noise.

Then rig it for silent running.

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