ever used the tv as a monitor!?

[sebanaj]

If so, how does it look? is it better? does everything look much bigger?! Does it lose resolution!?

Thanks

 

[cgannon64]

I should think it would have a much higher resolution than a monitor.

 

[Laughing Gull]

no, the resolution is lower than a monitor. the pixels on a TV set are much larger than a monitor.

compare the cost of a 17" TV vs a 17" CRT monitor

 

[Laughing Gull]

*secretly wants the power to move this thread to "computer talk"*

 

[cgannon64]

Well I'll be.

EDIT: Ever say a phrase so odd and funny you wonder if you're even using it right?

 

[sebanaj]

oh sorry i didn't know there was such a forum!
So if i connect a 28" tv to the computer it'll look very bad on 1024x768?

 

[Laughing Gull]

Originally posted by sebanaj
oh sorry i didn't know there was such a forum!
So if i connect a 28" tv to the computer it'll look very bad on 1024x768?

If it is a CRT tv set, it wont be as sharp, but I'm not stopping from trying.


I imagine a HDTV or LCD TV will look about the same as a computer monitor.

 

[nihilistic]

If I remember correctly standard tvs are 480 by 525. Even if that number is wrong, I'm sure that the number is below 600 by 800. TV resolutions suck, which is why monitors cost so much.

 

[Comraddict]

it sux and is good for movies only.

 

[bobgote]

I connected it up to play movies on, and my 1024x768 desktop was unreadable, even with decent sized text. You lose a lot of resolution and as Comraddict said it is good for movies only. I ended up having to connect a monitor so i could read to find the movies i wanted to play on the tv.

 

[sebanaj]

Oh well, i think it's a normal system tv, not lcd

 

[Archer 007]

I had a teacher that did it in middle school, and I remember it being pretty clear.

 

[Lifeblood]

As the previous peeps have stated it works great for movies. Especially vcd's that look like grainy crap on a monitor will look much better on a T V set.

 

[AlfMaster]

My friend did it at his house.
It seemed to work well, but when we used it for Age of Empires II, it was difficult to read the words

 

[Chairman Meow]

Last year, my roommate used his computer monitor as a TV (he has a TV tuner card in his computer, which allows him to watch TV on his computer). It seems like a good idea (no need for a TV, which in a college dorm just wastes space), and I was thinking of trying it, though I never bothered getting a TV tuner card to actually try it.

 

[Reno]

It works properly only on movies, if you try to read something from TV monitor you'll damage your eye's. So only use it for movies.