On 01/11/2013 11:04 AM, Ken Dibble wrote:
Why not buy a cheap PC with hdmi video built into the motherboard,
and use your HDTV as its monitor? You could connect the PC to your
router for internet access. You could then change between your hdtv
being a pc monitor or a tv by using your hdtv remote to navigate the
menu to select/change input sources.
Space considerations; no place to put such a computer in this room.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a DVI-to-HDMI adapter, but
then it would only carry the video output and I want audio and video
to come out of the TV so I can control the volume with the TV remote.
Many video cards that have DVI out, and no hdmi, provided a dvi to html
adopter, which cost like a few dollars. The dvi to html adopter
provided with the video card had the wire used by the hdmi cable for
audio out, and a small thin cable to run from the motherboard's S/PDIF
pin to the video card. This allow the motherboard to direct audio
output to the video card and the video card to use its dvi to hdmi
adaptor to carry audio to a HDTV or monitor with hdmi input. On my
motherboard the S/PDIF pin can be enabled using the BIOS.
Many video cards today provide an hdmi out that works right out of the
box, eliminating the complexity of using S/PDIF. If running a linux pc,
I would use Nvidia's gt 430. It has an hdmi out. See my other post in
this thread on the matter.
Regards,
LelandJ
Still thinking about this...
Thanks.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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