Aug 30, 2006 12:03 pm With most TV's I believe you are limited to 800x600 resolution. I would use screen positioning adjustments in your video card driver.
TV as a Monitor
Posted on Aug 30, 2006 12:02 pm
Josh Rose
JR Productions
Member Since: Mar 03, 2005
Yesterday I hooked up my computer to my TV using an SVID out of the computer to an SVID in the TV. Everything works well except for the fact that a little bit of my work screen seems to be cut off for some reason (ex I cant fully see the start button). Does anyone know how or if I can fix this?
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Aug 30, 2006 12:03 pm With most TV's I believe you are limited to 800x600 resolution. I would use screen positioning adjustments in your video card driver.
Aug 30, 2006 12:17 pm TVs are 640x480... plus on CRT TVs there is overscan... basically the image is projected larger than the screen so things will be cut off... plus 30 lines at the bottom for refresh... on a regular TV you can't fix it.
Aug 30, 2006 01:24 pm NVidia and ATI both have settings in their drivers where you can squish the image or simply move it around a tad, I do not reccomend a standard TV as a monitor though. The eye fatigue from flicker alone will get you (although nvidia had a flicker control slider that helped somewhat). I was able to run 800x600 on the crt tv but 640x480 has way less flicker, too bad windows isn't designed to be even semi functional at that res.
Even HD tv's are a finicky bunch. If you get an image without overscan (ATI is really good at this using their DVI->Component adapter) there is still some flicker. Media center is the only interface I can run on my TV that has no artifacts as it was designed for TV's.
So yeah, unless using it for a media center, I found hooking a PC to a TV for gaming or web browsing gave me headaches after awhile.
I've been trying this since 2000 so far on a 32" panasonic CRT, a 46" Zenith HD LCD projection and my now current 50" Samsung DLP projection (the best yet) and even though it works, I ended up buying a 19" LCD screen in the end and moving my computer to my office again. I have yet to try HDMI as my new TV is the first one I've had with said port. I will give that a whirl soon and report my findings.
Aug 31, 2006 03:59 pm Thanks guys. Its an HD (I was wrong before, I ran the SVID from my computer to the 3RCA HD, not SVID)so im not really seeing or having any flicker problems, everything seems normal to me. Ill check with the NVidia and see if I can resize it, and if some problem comes up, Ill just move it back to my junky crt monitor.
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