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Grygonos Thunderwulf
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Tech Question *ducks*
Anyone ever hook their PC up to a projection tv? I have an s-video on my card going into the s-vid in on the tv, I turned on large fonts for windows and set the res to 8x6 (which I know is 4:3 and ! 16:9) however the picture is still not correctly displaying the window that the tv uses to display the output. the right side is cut off slightly.. anyone have experience doing this? or know some software to scale down (ever so slightly) the picture in relation to the overall output?
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Rsak
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Most TVs when used with Computers need to be adjusted to fit. The vertical or horizontal needs to be widened or shrunk and the center points need to be moved as well.
Normally the computer resolutions do not fit naturally on televisions since the screens are just shaped differently such as projection or flat panel plasmas.
Normally the computer resolutions do not fit naturally on televisions since the screens are just shaped differently such as projection or flat panel plasmas.
End the hypocrisy!
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Grygonos Thunderwulf
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Forgive my unclear writing. The picture completely fits on the screen... I have a black border around the signal being transmitted (at least I think that's what's happening because in my Nvidia driver settings I can move the picture around the TV screen, and no matter how far to the left I move it, that small part on the right is still chopped.
This TV has 1080i/720p support (but since its not going in through a component video input I don't think that applies)
It's not like its that huge of a deal... If you have a maximized firefox window, it cuts off from the right half of the red x close button over...still emulators look fine on it, and that's one of the main reasons I hooked it up.. guess I'll learn to deal hehe
This TV has 1080i/720p support (but since its not going in through a component video input I don't think that applies)
It's not like its that huge of a deal... If you have a maximized firefox window, it cuts off from the right half of the red x close button over...still emulators look fine on it, and that's one of the main reasons I hooked it up.. guess I'll learn to deal hehe
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Rsak
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The adjustments i was referring to should be done on the TV not in the Nvidia driver while those may help.
I do not have much experience with Projection televisions, but from the number of plasma displays i have worked with at work they all have the adjustments i discussed. It should allow you to either shrink the image so it all fits or move the center point so when shrunk it all fits.
I do not have much experience with Projection televisions, but from the number of plasma displays i have worked with at work they all have the adjustments i discussed. It should allow you to either shrink the image so it all fits or move the center point so when shrunk it all fits.
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its svideo...the highest resolution it supports (in default driver settings) is 8x6 I can setup a custom resolution (as I tried earlier) for it to go 1024... but I don't think HD is at 1024 (from my brief reading on it) I did find a card that takes the vga output of any card as input and has a component video as output. its about 130.. but its interchangable with any card that supports custom timings (most do). I also found an adapter from ATI for use with certain ATI cards (i.e. card lockin) I could get the radeon 8500 and its adapter for around 60~...crescendo systems makes the vga to component pci card though.
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Rsak
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What graphic card do you have that actually has a setting for 8x6?
Graphic cards are going to having settings in raw pixels and just because you found a resolution that matches the dimensions of 8x6 does not mean that the TV will support it.
Televisions are naturally lower resolution then computer monitors while typically having larger viewable space. They are designed to be seen from much farther away.
The best recommendation i can offer is to set your output to 1024x768 and see what happens.
Graphic cards are going to having settings in raw pixels and just because you found a resolution that matches the dimensions of 8x6 does not mean that the TV will support it.
Televisions are naturally lower resolution then computer monitors while typically having larger viewable space. They are designed to be seen from much farther away.
The best recommendation i can offer is to set your output to 1024x768 and see what happens.
End the hypocrisy!
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What video card are you using?
I have a PC connected via S-Video to my TV at home and it works pretty well at 800x600. 1024x768 just makes things a little hard to read (given the native resolution of NTSC is 640x480).
Because I use that machine exclusively for watching Xvid stuff, I actually have it set up to push the borders slightly beyond the edge of the screen.
If you are using an nVidia card, get TVTool (http://tvtool.info) - it makes a huge difference. I also found the S-Video output of the GF4 to be significantly better than the old GF2-MX that I had in the machine.
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I have a PC connected via S-Video to my TV at home and it works pretty well at 800x600. 1024x768 just makes things a little hard to read (given the native resolution of NTSC is 640x480).
Because I use that machine exclusively for watching Xvid stuff, I actually have it set up to push the borders slightly beyond the edge of the screen.
If you are using an nVidia card, get TVTool (http://tvtool.info) - it makes a huge difference. I also found the S-Video output of the GF4 to be significantly better than the old GF2-MX that I had in the machine.
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