Re: Slightly o/t: PC on widescreen telly

Marky P wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:20:58 +0100, Michael Rozdoba
<mroz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:15:51 +0100, Rob
<rmovethispatchoulian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:37:03 +0100, Michael Rozdoba
<mroz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike Henry wrote:

IIRC Marky's TV is a plasma, not a LCD, and it's 1024 x 768 (16:0) which
means it has non-square pixels. If he were to pick a "widescreen" PC
display mode (eg 1366 x 768) I'm not sure what would happen...
It would display correctly I imagine, albeit with reduced horizontal resolution; certainly the aspect ratio should be correct.

I use that res on XP with a PDP-433MXE whose native res is 1024x768, with no problems.
I can't go any higher than 1024 x 768. My telly displays 'Not
Supported' :-( Bugger.

Mine's similar. So, I've connected it via the component output of the graphics card (a nvidea), which has various utilities to output at HD res, and an option to scale the picture. Looks pretty good to me.

Rob
My graphics card only has S-video out,
Oh, well, no wonder then. Doesn't the TV have a vga, dvi or hdmi input? How far is it from the PC?


I'm not using the S-video out, I'm using the monitor connection
straight to the PC socket on the telly. Oddly enough, the 50" version
on my telly supports the higher resolution, but I either have to
settle with 4:3 or stretched 16:9 (which is ok for newsgroups but not
pictures). Perhaps Windows Vista will have more options.

Marky P.


I'm not sure this 'native' thing can be done in software - the TV can accept the resolution or it can't.

I'm in a similar position to you - I'd suggest getting a new video card - the 6600GT with component out/720p I have does a decent job after a lot of fiddling. Or perhaps one of the new HDMI cards once a few reviews are out:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3=&product_uid=113171&_LOC=UK

Rob
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