Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-14 Thread pdimage
On 13/7/10 12:29, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: OK. simple you say? I'm sure going to try to. I guess the trick here is getting the right cable. So to start how can I check positively the capability of my two DVI ports on my Radeon 9600 card? Then from there I should have part of the

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-14 Thread pdimage
On 14/7/10 08:45, pdimage pdim...@btinternet.com wrote: On 13/7/10 12:29, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: OK. simple you say? I'm sure going to try to. I guess the trick here is getting the right cable. So to start how can I check positively the capability of my two DVI ports on my

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread pdimage
On 12/7/10 22:07, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want to watch iTunes stuff just full on DVD images like I do now by mounting

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread Clark Martin
On 7/13/10 12:11 AM, pdimage wrote: On 12/7/10 22:07, John Carmonnecarmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want to watch iTunes stuff just full on DVD

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Clark Martin wrote: you can use a simple cable to go from DVI to HDMI on the TV. Not all DVI-to-HDMI adapter cables are identical in the way they handle the conversion. Some adapter cables are made to handle the audio that's lacking, while others aren't. Some

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Clark Martin wrote: you can use a simple cable to go from DVI to HDMI on the TV. Not all DVI-to-HDMI adapter cables are identical in the way they handle the conversion. Some adapter cables are made to handle

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: A third option is to use something like SwitchResX to create a custom setting to match your HDTV input, but I don't believe this is a good option. Why? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-13 Thread Kris Tilford
A third option is to use something like SwitchResX to create a custom setting to match your HDTV input, but I don't believe this is a good option. Why? SwitchResX is rather pricey (€14=$17.80 today). I'd rather put the money into a more compatible hardware. SwitchResX can be difficult to

Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want to watch iTunes stuff just full on DVD images like I do now by mounting them with Toast and playing on my VIZIO display. Any

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread Eric Herbert
Get a TV that has a DVI or HDMI connection on it, then get the appropriate cable to connect to it. My G5 tower is connected to a 52 Toshiba HDTV via a DVI-HDMI cable in my living room and it works like a champ. PS: HDMI and DVI are standard connections on most modern TV sets (Well the decent

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:07 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want to watch iTunes stuff just full on DVD images like I do now by mounting

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:07 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want to watch iTunes stuff

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:29 PM, John Carmonne wrote: So far so good now what about sound and without having to sell the first Grandson what video card would do a good job? I have a ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB. The sound output of the G5 connects to the tv sound input; you also have optical IO on

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Eric Herbert wrote: PS: HDMI and DVI are standard connections on most modern TV sets (Well the decent ones anyway). Skip S-Video, the quality is horrible. The new standard for modern TVs will be HDbaseT which uses standard ethernet cables that are a lot