RE: Displaying a computer screen image on TV

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

hear hear,

I run a PC connected to my TV in the living room, - a 43"
rear-projection
set, which if anything makes the situation even worse, as the image is
quite
big. (it certainly "seems" sharper when viewed on a 32" CRT
set).

As Keith says, I run it at 800x600, and I can read the icon text on the
desktop, and the text in explorer without adjusting anything. This is via
S-video.

I found running 640x480 too awkward, - yes everything is a great deal more
legible, but there's just so little screen space! - hardly anything these
days is optimised for less than 800x600 it seems... If you really wanted to
improve the readability, you could increase the Windows font size a couple
of points...

Paul G.


>
>Modulation totally screws the image.
>
>Ideally you need S-Video. With S-Video Windows Explorer is readable  at
>800x600 but a lower resoultion will give clearer text unless you can up
the
>font size to compensate.
>
>Keith
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Ian B [mailto:Ian@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 09 January 2002 20:44
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Displaying a computer screen image on TV
>
>
>   Nope, you hit it on the head. TV out is very poor for text and
normal
>computer screen activity. Try lowering the resolution to a max of 640
by
>480
>or even lower. Not very satisfactory all in I'm afraid.
>
>   Ian
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Information [mailto:enquiries@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 09 January 2002 20:35
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: [ukha_d] Displaying a computer screen image on TV
>
>
>   Looking for a way to control a computer based MP3 player around the
>home,
>I thought about displaying the screen from a TV out card in the PC
>modulated
>onto the video distribution system.
>   I tried this from the TV out (composite) port on my Compaq laptop
and
>the
>image was illegible on the TV screen.
>   Am I doing something wrong?  Has anybody done this with any success?
If
>so, what did they use?
>
>   Thanks in advance
>
>   Darren
>
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Paul G.




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