Re: more tv hookup questions

pheasant16 wrote:
With spodosaurus' help last week figured out how to play back dvd's from an external hard drive to fancy new tv.

An old Dell laptop PIII 600mhz, with a PCMIA USB2 card will be the output source. It has an S video and a vga port. The tv has both of these input jacks. I do have an old dvd player and vcr hooked up to the 2 existing a/v inputs but if you all tell me S-video can easily unhook one of the a/v jacks to accommodate the s video.

No intention of using the tv as a computer monitor other than dvd playback.

Thanks

Mark

VGA offers more bandwidth, for a sharper picture. S-video and composite
are bandwidth limited, which is why text looks so bad. For video playback,
either will probably work. Video is not nearly as demanding, as trying
to read five point text fonts. But you should still test with all output
options available to you, and make up your own mind. For example,
on my TV set, composite input looks dreadful. I cannot do anything
with that, except perhaps look at the output of my old VCR. That
looks OK. But for computer video, my colors are all wrong, if I
output to composite.

Are you sure the PIII 600MHz, has enough computing power for all movie
formats ? To start, have you tested using just the LCD screen of the
laptop ?

Paul
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