Hi. Same question as above - I have the S-video output on my video card. I have an HD TV (1080i/480p). Can I just hook up an S-video cable and I'm good to go or is there anything else involved?
Originally posted by shugaloaf:Hi. Same question as above - I have the S-video output on my video card. I have an HD TV (1080i/480p). Can I just hook up an S-video cable and I'm good to go or is there anything else involved?
i have a HD tv and i just got a mini dvi, it has the option of using the s-video and i just hooked it up to the tv and i was good to go
I'm confused... Isn't a mini DVI another type of connection? Also, if it is some sort of periphrial, does the fact that it can connect to a HDTV via S-Video mean that a PC can as well?
I'm just tyring to figure out if we're comparing apples to oranges.
Originally posted by shugaloaf:I'm confused... Isn't a mini DVI another type of connection? Also, if it is some sort of periphrial, does the fact that it can connect to a HDTV via S-Video mean that a PC can as well?
I'm just tyring to figure out if we're comparing apples to oranges.
i have a macbook and it has a mini-dvi port on it. with the dvi, i can also use s-video cable. if u have a pc with s-video it can also connect to the tv as well. i was in the same boat as u. i was looking for s-video card to put into my pc so i can watch videos from my pc to tv.
Yeah I remember seeing your post earlier. Do you know what resolution I should be able to get with the S-Video? My TV is HD 1080i/480p. Will I be able to do like 1024x768 (or better) do you think? Basically I just want to be able to see the screen without it being made huge(like 640x480) and be able to read the fonts. What do you think?
Originally posted by shugaloaf:Yeah I remember seeing your post earlier. Do you know what resolution I should be able to get with the S-Video? My TV is HD 1080i/480p. Will I be able to do like 1024x768 (or better) do you think? Basically I just want to be able to see the screen without it being made huge(like 640x480) and be able to read the fonts. What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
800x600 should be good, my mac automatically fixes itself for the tv and im able to read the font and stuff. This is my opinion but sometimes it depends on the page and how far u are from the tv, since i have a 47 inch HDTV i can sit quite far from the tv.
yeah, most of the time you just have to configure it for what works best for you.
if you have a nice tv, you'll be able to handle better resolutions..
if your broke college kid like me, you won't it just depends.
By the way, if you have a TV with a DVI input USE IT!!!!!!!!! it is better quality than S-Video, and will be able to handle the best resolutions most of the time.
Thanks guys. I wish I had the dvi input that would make things so much easier. Oh well, on the next tv.
Mine is a 47" too. Is yours a Panasonic Truth? If so we porbably have the same tv.
800x600 is alright, guess it's better than nothing. Was hoping for a little better for games and web surfing. Looks like I need to get some dvi inputs!!
Hey remember a few years back when a few bigscreen TVs were coming out with rgb inputs on the back? I wonder why they stopped that...
Hi, I have a Dell Latitude C600 laptop, and I have a 20" Niko LCD monitor. I used an s-video cable to connect the monitor to my computer, and the computer recognizes it as a secondary monitor, but the monitor says "NO SIGNAL". What should I do? Thanks.
