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29 June 2006

A potentially stupid Ask Mecha So, feelin' groovy after a rather sweet bonus check, I bought a new TeeVee.→[More:] I wanted to ditch the home office for hooking the comps up in the livin' room to the new thing. Now, I'd assumed that a LCD TeeVee had the same resolution as either my laptop or my tower's monitor, but the pic from the laptop to the TeeVee is blurry; images/video are okay, but the text is for shit. Sadly, the quality was exactly the same as the 20+ year old TeeVee it replaces. Was I a stupid consumer or am I missing something about translating the signal from lappy to TeeVee (using an s-video to RCA)?

post by: moonbird at: 06:56 | 2 comments

moonbird, even a high-definition LCD TV is not going to have near the resolution as most decent computer monitors. Your TV is an EDTV, meaning the resolution is even lower, probably 720x480.

posted by mike9322 29 June | 07:06

Dell 24" flat panel LCD, 1920x1600 pixels; accepts D-SUB, DVI, Component, Composite, or S-Video, has picture in picture for any combo of one each of (D-SUB, DVI) and (Component, Composite, or S-Video), does HDTV (but not sure if it does 480 or 1080), is maybe slightly too slow in its refresh rate (16ms) for perfect TV, but is excellent as a monitor, and big enough you really can put the TV in picture-in-picture and have enough space to work on the PC (or forget the TV and it's almost like having two monitors side by side; you can have your browser and your IDE both open at once, or whatever). Type in the ative 1920x1600 resolution looks too small at first, work your way up one resolution seeting every couple of days, you'll get used to it.

posted by orthogonality 29 June | 08:05

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