David Brown wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:50:04PM -0800, gossamer axe wrote:
I have an LCD HDTV that has a HDMI port. What do I need (or can I do
this)
to run my PC into it and use the TV as a monitor? I tried to flip
over the
TV and see the port, it didn't look like a standard VGA cable would go in
there.
It probably won't accept VGA, but you could probably make it work with a
video card with DVI out on it. You would need a conversion cable.
HDMI is backward compatible, electrically and signalling with DVI, so it
should be able to handle a DVI output, as long your video card is smart
enough to put out the right image.
The other direction (an HDMI device into a DVI monitor) may or may not
work, depending on the device. HD DVD players are only supposed to output
encrypted video, so would refuse to play on regular DVD. There are some
monitors with DVI connectors that support the full HDMI protocol (I have
one here) where this would work, though.
SJS Wrote:
I tried this with a mac mini. I was not terribly impressed. The best
resolution on the mini still didn't look very nice on the TV, and all
overlapped the edges of the TV (so I couldn't see the edges of the
screen).
That probably is the best you'll get on that TV. A display intended for
use as a TV might be doing imaging processing to make a TV image look
better. Clipping the edges is standard for TV, and suggests this is the
case. Also, most TVs don't have very good resolution, with sets claiming
to do HD really only having much lower resolution than HD, and resampling
and processing the image. It looks fine for TV, but really bad with
computer images. It probably looks fine to play DVDs from the computer.
Dave
I haven't dealt with making a TV image show up
on a monitor for years and when I did it was
with those old ATI All-In-Wonder cards that did
video capture. They came with an app that would
run cable TV in a box. Is there anything like
that for Linux?
It would be nice to dispense with a separate TV
altogether and just get a big computer flat
panel monitor that will display the X desktop
along with a resizeable app running TV that can
be manipulated at will. Has anyone don this?
rbw
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