RE: RE: (OT) PC display on TV

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Peter,

Fine text will NEVER look good on a TV output but can look quite
reasonable.

What resolution is the PC running?
What size text are you trying to display?
What is the ACTUAL resolution of the LCD ?

You mention is it a Widescreen LCD TV as opposed to an LCD Monitor so the
resolution of the display is probably lower than what you are sending to
it.
The means the display will be scaling the image to fit and that generally
screws the definition completely.

Have you tried it on an conventional CRT TV?
It should be quite acceptable on that.

If it is, then play about with PC resolution (you may have to drop to
640x480) and font size on the information you are trying to display.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: peter.white@xxxxxxx [mailto:peter.white@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 September 2002 09:18
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] RE: (OT) PC display on TV


All

In the office I've got a 22" Panasonic LCD widescreen running off a PC
with
S-Video out for corporate videos and that kinda thing.

Only problem is that the picture quality ain't great - it's OK for movies,
but
any text looks very ragged.  Unfortunately there are no VGA inputs on the
TV,
just RF, Scart and S-Video.  Are there any obvious way to improve this? 
The
(ATI AIW) AV out on the TV card has 9 pins, so plugged into that is the
supplied
converter that splits the output into audio and S-Video.  Plugged into that
is a
3mtr S-Video lead of average quality, but I have used a better 1mtr cable
with
no great improvement in quality.  The card was only a short-term measure,
so
that can be replaced if it'll make a big difference.  Any ideas?

Pete


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