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Res Surection · Mar 16, 2006, 12:28 AM // 00:28

is having a tv as a monitor as good worst or better than having it to a regular monitor, i wanted to hide th case get wireless mouse and keyboard, if it is a bad idea tell me, and does the fps of a video card make a difference for tv? i overread that a pc monitor needs only about 75 fps anything over is to much, i was wondering if a tv monitor would need more......

Tachyon · Mar 16, 2006, 12:47 AM // 00:47

Depends on your TV! If you have a LCD HDTV with either HDMI or DVI input then it works just fine. I know that for a fact as I have a Samsung LE26R51BD and the PC looks great through it.

As for the old standard CRT televisions, I can't say for sure as I've never used one for the PC. I can't imagine they would work that well though, not in comparison with a dedicated monitor. Why not get a decent sized monitor and stick a TV card in the PC? That way you get a good screen for the PC and also TV prgrammes look better too.

Res Surection · Mar 16, 2006, 01:03 AM // 01:03

because i dont wanna watch tv through a pc monitor, i was gnna have it set so that m pc was basically part of the entertainment system, like a ps2 would be

Ghozer · Mar 16, 2006, 08:27 AM // 08:27

Its not "FPS" its "HTZ" (the refresh, - the number of times the DISPLAY re-draws the picture its being sent)

a High Quality TV with a monitor input (Either DVI or Standard VGA) will do the trick just fine, as most TV's like this support at-least 60htz (which is the minimum for a PC) -- I wouldnt reccomend using the "TV Out" on cards for anything other than Watching movies, as general every day use they are not very good (text blur's and the clarity isnt very good)

So as a short answer, Yes, it is do-able, (and worth it) If you get and use the correct Type of TV and cables...

Teklord · Mar 16, 2006, 03:58 PM // 15:58

Display devices, whether it be a CRT TV, LCD TV, or computer Monitor, are just 'dumb' devices. They can only do what they are told (display what they are sent). The fps will be directly effected by the resolution and graphics settings of the the specific application. If you can run said application at 60fps on your computer screen at 1600 x 1200 resolution, it will run that same 60 fps at that same resolution on a TV, even though the physical screen size may be 30" greater. However, 1600 x 1200 is not a supported TV resolution.

I have a 50" Panasonic widescreen LCD TV. I have successfully hooked up my Area 51 7700m notebook using DVI to HDMI on the TV. Now at 1080i (TV Talk) resoultions which I believe fall around 1920 x 1080 I found that screen text was not very clear and hard to read on the TV. However one could play a game where it isn't important to read small text at that resolution and it would look absolutely phenomenal. Also, I don't think I was running a true 1920 x 1080 as the computer screen would not fit on the TV screen, there would be some missing parts on the edges.

Using 720p resolution the screen was clear and very readable, however the actual resolution I had to use here was like 1300 x 800 or some really strange resolution. It filled up about 95% of the TV screen and as I said just looked absolutely beautiful. However I found things rather crampt at that resolution as at the time I was used to 1280 x 1024 on my computer monitor, the loss in height was too noticeable for me. Thus I've pretty much given up on the idea of playing on my TV screen, as for most other games don't even support widescreen resolutions well let alone the weird custom ones that are required to get it to fit on the TV screen properly.

I'm going to stick with 1600 x 1200 on my 21" LCD. I just wish I had 2 more so I could set up multi-monitor much like that screenshot I saw in another thread around here. That would be the ultimate.

So to agree with others it can surely be done. However perhaps it is easier with a standard 4:3 TV? And perhaps if it was plasma the 1080i resolutions would show up nice and crisp as well. These things I do not know.