> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: [Gaming] Phantom shown at CES show
>
> http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=141
>
> Apparently it was running some games.
>
> Actually...I've never output anything to the television from my computer.
> What sort of settings do you need? Would 640x480
> resolution work for the Television? Or do you need 1024 x 768?
It depends on the TV. Most older TVs can't do 640x480 reasonably. It has a
lot to do with the way that NTSC or PAL TV signals are created vrs computer
signals, but basically TVs just don't have the definition. (This is why Web
TV resolution was so low 544x372.)
They DO have the pixels, but the image is "softer" than a computer monitor
and so things like text tend to be fuzzy. Think of an inkjet printer vrs a
Dye Sublimation printer: the Dye Sub printer prints amazing photos with
wonderful gradients and soft color, but fuzzy text. The inkjet prints much
better text, but has some trouble with realistic gradients.
TV images are also "interlaced" - meaning that it takes two passes to
display one frame of information. Computer images are non-interlaced and
generally have much faster refresh rates. All this means that a computer
monitor doesn't flicker like an old TV.
Lastly old TV pixels were rectangular and thus stupid. They were also rude
to old people.
But that was the old days! Now we've got HDTV! Not only do we get vastly
more pixels, but they're also squarer and sharper. The best HD resolution
is 1,080x1,920 ("1080i").
Most high-end video cards come with pre-defined HD resolutions or the
ability to construct them. The problem is getting the signal to the HDTV.
Some TV (like those aren't mine) have a direct DVI port which allows you to
plug a PC directly into the TV. For others it depends on the video card,
but ATI (for) has a fairly inexpensive DVI-to-Component dongle that a lot of
people seem to like.
There are other converters out there, but most run a minimum of $100 to
around $300.
I'm not sure what technology the Phantom will use, but I hope its HDTV
capable via Component connects.
Actually, on second thought, I don't realty care... the chances of me buying
a Phantom even if they do come out is pretty much nil... ;^)
Jim Davis
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